Re: [DRAFT] Branching and merging with git

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Nov 17, 2006, 21:31 UTC
Message-ID: <20061117213125.GG7201@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20061117120154.3eaf5611.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 06:01:54PM CET, Sean wrote:

> There is enough native Git documentation and hopefully more coming
> that third party tools should be pushed behind the scenes a bit.
> At least on the GIT website.

It's not about documentation but ease to use. I agree and sympathise very much with the effort of making core Git more easy to use and obsoleting Cogito, but until it gets there we should have what's nicest to the users.

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> Of course there is nothing wrong with having information there, but
> the main thrust should be about Git and how to use it directly without
> porcelains.  Especially in the light that people have recently
> expressed a desire to advocate and document the use of native Git
> more strongly.

If someone writes a crash course in pure Git covering the same grounds as the current ones (possibly by just extending/retouching the tutorial) (it does not necessarily need to be a "refugee" crash course, it can build up from scratch), I can add it on the web. If it becomes as easy to use and with as mild learning curve as Cogito, it means Cogito got mostly obsolete and I'll happily remove the Cogito crash courses from the web.

> Having a link to Cogito off the front page of the Git website that
> says... Cogito makes things "easier", no matter how much you
> personally believe it, isn't the way everyone feels and is at
> odds with the native-git message and improvement effort.

If you disagree about that fact, can you provide some specific argumentation?

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