Re: first impressions to git

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Sep 18, 2005, 22:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20050918221125.GD22391@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050918211855.GA1463@schottelius.org>

Dear diary, on Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:18:56PM CEST, I got a letter where Nico -telmich- Schottelius <nico-linux-git@schottelius.org> told me that...

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> Adrien Beau [Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:33:05PM +0200]:
> > Note that there is a problem if a Git-unaware daemon is used on the
> > server (typical in the case of HTTP and rsync). If someone pulls while
> > a push is in progress, references to not-yet-uploaded objects can be
> > retrieved.
> 
> Well, this will most likely happen often or how do you normally publish
> your famous .git-directory?

I think it should actually never happen, updating the references should always come as the last thing in the push (or pull, for that matter) process.

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> > I'd be much obliged if you could tell me where the documentation lost you; 
> > it's really hard to document effectively without the assistance of someone 
> > who doesn't already know the program.
> 
> Well, my way was:
> 
> - find git [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/]
> - find documentation [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/]
> - find step-by-step doc
>    [http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/tutorial.html]
> 
> So far so fine, than I found the git-update-index/cache thing, which confused
> me, I was not sure, whether this documentation fits only partly to git
> or absolutely not. Still, I was continuing with git-update-cache.

I believe it'd be a much more reasonable and less confusing policy for Git to have the docs for the last release on the web. (Cogito always had it this way, for that matter. ;-)

> > ".git/remotes" is the current one; ".git/branches" is obsolete.
> 
> Will .git/branches be complety removed later?

If that'd be the case, .git/branches is so widespread that at least Cogito would move its content to .git/remotes automagically at some point (it was doing such things in the past and it worked out well).

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