Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@xxxxxx> writes: > ... I still feel that refspecs need more > explaining ... Perhaps. The basic syntax is "src colon dst" and they are used to copy what's in src to dst, and that is pretty much what's there to it. Some details such as how the wildcard matching works may be missing from the description part of the manual, and filling them in would be a good idea. I however strongly suspect that what new people need to get explained may not be what the mechanism does (e.g. copies the object name recorded as the src ref to the dst ref), nor the syntax you use to tell the mechanism what to copy where (e.g. src is LHS, dst is RHS, copying "emptyness" into dst means deleting dst). I actually think that is an easier part. What is more important is the basic concepts like what a ref is, how they can be used and what you can do with them --- understanding of which would be essential in being able to decide when and how you maywant to keep a copy of ref you get from elsewhere and under what name. I think tutorial is the best place, and then the description section of the manual the second best one, to document that kind of things. -- 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
