Re: [PATCH] tutorial.txt renamed

From: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Date: Jan 7, 2009, 06:07 UTC
Message-ID: <200901070707.36263.chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
In-Reply-To: <DA6E1A83-FFBA-46BC-9BCF-ED8A2D8F12E7@silverinsanity.com>

Le mercredi 7 janvier 2009, Brian Gernhardt a écrit :

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> On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:28 AM, Christian Couder wrote:
> > Le mercredi 7 janvier 2009, Joey Hess a écrit :
> >> diff --git a/README b/README
> >> index 548142c..5fa41b7 100644
> >> --- a/README
> >> +++ b/README
> >> @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ It was originally written by Linus Torvalds with
> >> help
> >> of a group of hackers around the net. It is currently maintained by
> >> Junio
> >> C Hamano.
> >>
> >> Please read the file INSTALL for installation instructions.
> >> -See Documentation/tutorial.txt to get started, then see
> >> +See Documentation/gittutorial.txt to get started,
> >
> > "man gittutorial" and "git help tutorial" should work to display the
> > tutorial, so perhaps we should advise to use them instead of the
> > source,
> > since we are advising to use "man git-commandname" below to get help
> > on
> > each command.
>
> This is the README file for the project, so it should advise looking
> at the Documentation directory as neither the man pages or git command
> are likely installed at this point.

Well, this is debatable, because we first ask the user to read the INSTALL file, and a tutorial for git may not be very usefull if you don't have it installed to try out the tutorial commands.

Regards, Christian.