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Re: svn user trying to recover from brain damage

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JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
May 9, 2007, 17:43 UTC
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On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Joshua Ball wrote:
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> 1. Tutorials for people brand new to version control, with just enough
> information for them to "obey the rules", but completely empty of any
> information that could help them exploit the real power of
> decentralized version control.
> 2. Technical documentation which assumes pre-obtained knowledge.
Would you mind also trying
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html

It *tries* to fill that gap you're referring to, but you might find it has some more gaps (which we'd like to hear about).

> What the heck do these terms mean? The glossary on the Git wiki was
> unhelpful (I'll explain later).

Hm. I wonder how that and the glossary included in Documentation/ have diverged?

--b.
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  1. Joshua BallMay 9, 2007
  2. Carl WorthMay 9, 2007
  3. Karl HasselströmMay 9, 2007
  4. Petr BaudisMay 9, 2007
  5. Jan HudecMay 9, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsMay 9, 2007
  7. J. Bruce FieldsMay 9, 2007
  8. Jakub NarebskiMay 11, 2007

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