On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Björn Steinbrink wrote: > > So, how would you make it less obscure and unobvious then the current > method? The current method would be: > > git fetch linux-next > git checkout linux-next/whatever > > Which seems neither obscure nor unobvious to me... One thing that I admit we haven't done is _document_ this in some obvious place. When you know git, it's really fairly obvious and straightforward. But for somebody who doesn't, then _all_ the documentation is really about well-maintained trees that don't rebase. We very much discourage rebasing, and none of the docs even really talk about how to handle it. The linux-next tree in general is I think not as useful as people think it could be. _I_ think it's been sold as something much bigger and more useful than "it's a tree where you see conflicts early, but you can't actually really _use_ it for anything". So part of it is not even necessarily about _git_ documentation, but about the documentation for some of the trees that use git, but that aren't really meant for others to then use. Linus -- 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
