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Re: as promised, docs: git for the confused

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THTimo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>
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Dec 12, 2005, 17:53 UTC
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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 08:34:12 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> Or maybe it's just me. But I know _I_ understand things better by seeing 
> the "context" that they are used in. Then I go to man-pages later on, if I 
> want to know the details.

Me too. BTW, new users very likely read tutorial.txt first. But it is way too low level (git-cat-file, git-write-tree...). Maybe those low level commands should be described in technical/ instead? The tutorial would be logical place for examples.

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