git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide

From
Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
Date
Dec 12, 2008, 19:40 UTC
Message-ID
<20081212194047.GJ26596@yugib.highrise.ca>
In-Reply-To
<bd6139dc0812121124j49c80bbdhca22ddbdabc14cee@mail.gmail.com>
* Sverre Rabbelier <alturin@gmail.com> [081201 00:00]:
Show 6 quoted lines
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 20:12, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> > In my opinion, it's much easier to deal with if you can visualise how it
> > works
> 
> Ah, this is of course why they teach you how an engine works at the
> driving schools!

No, but all the people I've taught to drive have suddenly "got it" after a gentle introduction as to how the clutch clutch and engine speed work together in the transmission to accellerate/decellerate the car...

So, a bit of "understanding" of what's actually going on helped them, not the "push that pedal towards the floor and pop the other one out!".

But... everyone learns differently...
a.
-- 
Aidan Van Dyk                                             Create like a god,
aidan@highrise.ca                                       command like a king,
http://www.highrise.ca/                                   work like a slave.
Previous: Sverre RabbelierNext: Nick Andrew
Message 10 of 38 in “Simplified GIT usage guide”
  1. Simplified GIT usage guideDavid Howells, Dec 12, 2008
  2. Miklos VajnaDec 12, 2008
  3. David HowellsDec 12, 2008
  4. Miklos VajnaDec 12, 2008
  5. David HowellsDec 13, 2008
  6. Miklos VajnaDec 13, 2008
  7. Johannes SchindelinDec 12, 2008
  8. David HowellsDec 12, 2008
  9. Sverre RabbelierDec 12, 2008
  10. Aidan Van DykDec 12, 2008
  11. Nick AndrewDec 13, 2008
  12. Ping YinDec 14, 2008
  13. Paul E. McKenneyDec 19, 2008
  14. Junio C HamanoDec 19, 2008
  15. Paul E. McKenneyDec 19, 2008
  16. valdis.kletnieks@vt.eduDec 24, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinDec 19, 2008
  18. Paul E. McKenneyDec 19, 2008
  19. Jakub NarebskiDec 12, 2008
  20. David HowellsDec 13, 2008
  21. Sverre RabbelierDec 13, 2008
  22. Willy TarreauDec 19, 2008
  23. Nicolas PitreDec 13, 2008
  24. J. Bruce FieldsDec 12, 2008
  25. J. Bruce FieldsDec 13, 2008
  26. David HowellsDec 13, 2008
  27. Jeff GarzikDec 12, 2008
  28. Chris FriesenDec 12, 2008
  29. David HowellsDec 13, 2008
  30. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2008
  31. Nick AndrewDec 13, 2008
  32. Nicolas PitreDec 12, 2008
  33. Junio C HamanoDec 13, 2008
  34. Matthieu MoyDec 14, 2008
  35. Marcin SlusarzDec 14, 2008
  36. C. Scott AnanianDec 19, 2008
  37. Michael J GruberDec 19, 2008
  38. C. Scott AnanianDec 19, 2008

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.