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Suggestions for documentation

From
CSClaudio Scordino <cloud.of.andor@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 19, 2007, 07:33 UTC
Message-ID
<467786B1.5000009@gmail.com>
Hi,
    I just want to suggest to put some missing information in the git manpages.
1) As my previous question shown, how to clone from a specified port is not 
currently documented. You should just add a sentence saying that the command is
git clone git://server:port/path/
2) Maybe it is better to highlight that after a push on a remote repository, the 
user has to do a checkout on that repository (people from the CVS and SVN worlds 
get easily confused, otherwise).

Moreover (and I did not fully understood why) if I just use "git checkout" without the -f option, I cannot see the changes that have been pushed from the cloned repository.

Regards,
          Claudio
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