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Re: git newbie problems

From
Tom Prince <tom.prince@ualberta.net>
Date
Dec 6, 2006, 01:52 UTC
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 04:41:29PM -0800, Graham Percival wrote:
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> Greetings,
> 
> I'm posting these problems at Han-Wen and Dscho's insistence.  I'm the 
> documentation editor for GNU/LilyPond, so I'm reluctant to criticize 
> other project's documentation unless I spend an hour or more seriously 
> reading it.

It is generally accepted that much of git documentation sucks in various ways, and people have stepped up to help fix this. The problem is that most people are already well-versed in git, which makes it harder to identify the problem areas in the documentation, and that few people unfamiliar with git post to report their problems with the documentation, or UI so that, at least on the mailinglist itself, we get little direct feedback on the documentation or UI.

Thank you from the list for your contribution.
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Message 9 of 38 in “git newbie problems”
  1. Graham PercivalDec 6, 2006
  2. Jakub NarebskiDec 6, 2006
  3. Han-Wen NienhuysDec 6, 2006
  4. Jakub NarebskiDec 6, 2006
  5. Han-Wen NienhuysDec 6, 2006
  6. Johannes SchindelinDec 6, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2006
  8. Daniel BarkalowDec 6, 2006
  9. Tom PrinceDec 6, 2006
  10. Graham PercivalDec 6, 2006
  11. Han-Wen NienhuysDec 6, 2006
  12. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2006
  13. Jakub NarebskiDec 6, 2006
  14. Han-Wen NienhuysDec 6, 2006
  15. cvs-migration document: make the need for "push" more obviousJohannes Schindelin, Dec 6, 2006
  16. Jakub NarebskiDec 6, 2006
  17. Johannes SchindelinDec 6, 2006
  18. Jakub NarebskiDec 6, 2006
  19. New users, was Re: [PATCH] cvs-migration document: make the need for "push" more obviousJohannes Schindelin, Dec 6, 2006
  20. J. Bruce FieldsDec 6, 2006
  21. Han-Wen NienhuysDec 6, 2006
  22. J. Bruce FieldsDec 6, 2006
  23. Han-Wen NienhuysDec 6, 2006
  24. Johannes SchindelinDec 6, 2006
  25. J. Bruce FieldsDec 6, 2006
  26. J. Bruce FieldsDec 6, 2006
  27. Junio C HamanoDec 6, 2006
  28. Documentation: reorganize cvs-migration.txtJ. Bruce Fields, Dec 7, 2006
  29. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2006
  30. J. Bruce FieldsDec 7, 2006
  31. Johannes SchindelinDec 7, 2006
  32. J. Bruce FieldsDec 7, 2006
  33. Johannes SchindelinDec 7, 2006
  34. J. Bruce FieldsDec 8, 2006
  35. Junio C HamanoDec 8, 2006
  36. J. Bruce FieldsDec 9, 2006
  37. Graham PercivalDec 6, 2006
  38. J. Bruce FieldsDec 6, 2006

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