From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 17:43:07 GMT
Subject: Re: svn user trying to recover from brain damage
Message-ID: <20070509174307.GF23778@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <92fdc3450705090830t64c8f5b9r4af277807dfe834d@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Joshua Ball wrote:
> 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.