Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:51:20PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:21:58AM -0500, Craig L. Ching wrote:
> > Maybe if Git had a few different workflows
> > documented that might help. I know we have a "Git for SVN Users"
> > workflow, but if you want to move beyond that, it might be good to have
> > some of the more complex workflows documented. I think some people have
> > hinted at that suggestion but that maybe it just hasn't been explicitly
> > said.
>
> Yes, very recently, someone on #git asked about existing documented
> workflows, and there is very little. It would be interesting project for
> someone to build a 'Garden of Git Workflows' (or a Labyrinth) -
That's been requested for a long time, but nobody's gotten around to it.
It might be nice if it could be made a superset of everyday.txt.
--b.
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> for each
> workflow, detailed self-contained documentation ranging from lone developer
> with topic branches over repo.or.cz/github forks workflow, the workflows
> of "leaf contributors", lieutenants and main integrators of the mail-oriented
> kernel/git workflow, up to the single-central-repository workflows.
>
> There are bits here and there, but the main problem is that they are not
> self-contained. It might be nice to have something like a set of military
> manuals, appropriate for the roles of the particular developers.
>
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> Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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