Re: [PATCH] Remove 'submodules' from the TODO section of the User Manual.

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Sep 25, 2007, 20:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20070925201306.GW30845@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070925200252.GV30845@fieldses.org>

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:02:52PM -0400, bfields wrote:

> I think we should try to keep the git documentation mostly confined to
> tools that are distributed with git itself.  So it might be worth a few
> words just to mention the existance of tailor and how it compares to
> other tools, but I'd leave it at that.

So in fact it might be that what's needed isn't any new documentation on the available tools with their features and limitations.

I know that when I recently had to deal with a svn tree the hardest part was figuring out where to start (git-svn? git-svnimport?). I seem to recall threads here suggesting this is a general problem.

One exception--the "series of tarballs" thing--I think it's cool that you can just unpack a bunch of tarballs and string them together into a git history. It gives a good sense of how git works, and I don't think it's documented explicitly anywhere. I think that might be kinda fun to write up. But I haven't tried.

--b.