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Re: Little fix and suggestion for the git tutorial

From
JFJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date
Jun 22, 2007, 03:18 UTC
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<20070622031811.GA8027@fieldses.org>
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On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:45:01PM +0200, Carlos Rica wrote:
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> Sorry for not sending a patch, I was following the tutorial and found
> this, in the section "Using git for collaboration":
> 
> 307 With this, you can perform the first operation alone using the
> 308 "git fetch" command without merging them with her own branch,
> 309 using:
> 
> I think that "you" should be replaced with "she".
Yep, thanks.  Actually, I think we should make it "Alice".
> I have a suggestion also that I don't know how to fix. The text in
> that section seems to say something like you need to add a "remote"
> alias to be able to run fetch for retrieving without merging:

Yes, I agree, it's confusing. We're trying to introduce both fetch and remotes at the same time.

It might be the simplest thing to do would just be to use remotes from the start. I don't know. I haven't looked at this section in a while--I'll try to find time this weekend and see if I can come up with a better approach.

--b.
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  1. Carlos RicaJun 21, 2007
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