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Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide

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Vvaldis.kletnieks@vt.edu <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date
Dec 24, 2008, 04:35 UTC
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:27:23 PST, "Paul E. McKenney" said:
> I would be OK with it being in linux-2.6.git rather than git.git,
> if that helps.  Certainly there seems to be room for a description
> of how to use git within the Linux community.

What might help a lot of people (me, for one) would be a cookbook listing how to do things that those of us on the fringe might want to do. For example:

"type this to pull Linus's tree, and this to bisect it" (I already know how to do this one, actually)

"type this to pull a linux-next tree, and this to bisect it" (Last time I tried, the pull went OK, but I couldn't figure out how to give 'git bisect' a start/end commit that it was happy with).

"'git log foo/bar/baz.c' is your friend if you're chasing a recently added bug/regression in baz.c"

Hmm... it occurs to me that my only actual use for git is to find a commit ID so when I whinge to a developer, we're on the same page... ;)

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