Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide

> Add a guide to using GIT's simpler features.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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> +		      ===================================
> +		      THE GIT HATER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY
> +		      ===================================
> +
> +By David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> +
> +Contents:
> ...
> +============
> +INTRODUCTION
> +============
> +
> +So, you want to do some Linux kernel development?  And you hear there's this
> +piece of software called 'GIT' that you probably ought to be using when dealing
> +with the kernel community?  Then you find out that not only was Linux started
> +by this Linus Torvalds person, but GIT was too!  Perhaps it doesn't seem fair:
> +Linus has not just _one_ huge piece of software named after himself, but _two_!
> +And on top of that, globe spanning hardware vendors just queue up to give him
> +all the herring he can eat!!
> +
> +Then you look at webpages about GIT.  You look at the manpages!  You run the
> +commands with --help!  And you *still* don't know how to do anything complex
> +with it!!  You feel certain that there's some secret rite you have to perform
> +to become a GIT initiate - probably something involving two goats, an altar and
> +a full moon - oh, and lots of beer (we *are* talking about kernel developers
> +after all).
> +
> +Then you ask around, and people look at you blankly, hedge or say that it's
> +easy and obvious (they should know - they wrote the damned thing).  You realise
> +that the manpages are more an aide-memoire and that what you really want is
> +some sort of crib sheet; something that can hold your hand whilst you cut and
> +paste things from of it until you can see the point.
> +
> +Well, let's see if I can help...
> +
> +
> +DISCLAIMER
> +----------
> +
> +I don't really know what I'm doing with GIT...