Hi, Johannes Schindelin wrote: [...] > > I had the pleasure of introducing Git to a few users in the last months > and in my opinion, restricting myself to teaching them these commands > first helped tremendously: > > - clone, pull, status, add, commit, push, log > > All of these were presented without options, to keep things simple. Basically I agree, but depending on the user's foreign SCM knowledge it could be useful to talk about some basic "low-level" concepts of git (without talking about the plumbing). I mean: - objects (commits, trees, blobs ... in very short) - index and perhaps - refs (at least branches) I was told that before I've seen a first git command and I still think that was very useful. Hmm, just recalling, my first git commands were: 1. init 2. add 3. status 4. commit 5. diff 6. log 7. branch 8. checkout in this order, approximately. :) (And I've used rebase before merge and I haven't used clone/pull/push for a long time.) It seems I haven't touched any plumbing before I've started with GSoC :) I also think that for a user it is totally irrelevant if it is plumbing or porcelain she is using, as long as it works. I mean, if I tought someone using git, I'd never use the words "porcelain" or "plumbing". Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@xxxxxxx>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F -- 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
