On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > Another year, another update! :) > > > > > > The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates: > > > > > > http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html > > > > > > This includes all the input sent to me in the past several months, > > > as well as a few new tips and tricks I use on a regular basis. > > > > > > In general, this document is designed to be a quick-start cookbook, > > > and not a comprehensive introduction. > > > > there's one issue i have with this document, and that's that i wish it > > more carefully distinguished between regular git "user" tasks, and git > > "developer" tasks. > > > > i may be mistaken, but it would seem that a lot of folks are going to > > be what i call basic users, who only want to update their git tree, > > check the logs, check the status and so on. and if they start to get > > ambitious, they might make some changes to the tree, do a diff, and > > submit a patch. but in the beginning, they won't be making commits or > > switching branches, etc. > > > > in short, i can see the value of something like a "getting started > > with git as a basic user" tutorial. does such a thing exist? > > hmmm. There's the tutorial linked at the bottom of the page, which > in turn links to > http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html > > git is a developer's tool, so I sorta targetted that audience. I > definitely agree that is not only git audience... just to be clear, i'm not complaining about the quality of the document above, but when i got started with git, what i really wanted was a list of what i (as a simple, non-developer user) could do once i cloned a repository. to that end, i put together my own little reference list of git commands. for example, i collected ways to examine my repository -- git commands like branch, tag, log/shortlog, what-changed, show, grep, blame, that sort of thing. exactly the kind of stuff a new user might want to know about, even without the ability to change anything. just my $0.02. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
