Re: merging initial part of a branch?

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jan 13, 2006, 19:50 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4q477vqj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060113151005.GA29804@fieldses.org>

"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> writes:

> ....  Plain git
> actually seems to have pretty usable interfaces at this point, but it's
> not always obvious where to find them....

I share that feeling too, especially in the documentation area.

Last time we had something very nice going on in this thread:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/12917

whose the key article is:

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/13360

but the general sentiment was that having another document is making things more confusing and we should try to clarify the main documentation instead. Pasky said aptly:

    http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/13410

I am not much of a documentation person myself, and I do not have much interaction with people new to git, without which it is hard to know which point is harder to grasp and what documentation pages assume certain things are known to an uninitiated when they should not.

So I would really appreciate documentaiotn patches to clarify the current mess ;-).

> I also have Yet Another Git Tutorial, at
> http://www.fieldses.org/~bfields/kernel/git.html.  (Corrections and
> suggestions welcomed.)

The $prefix defaults to $HOME/bin/. Having $bindir on $PATH ought to be enough and exporting GIT_EXEC_PATH is not needd.

Other than that I did not see anything obviously wrong, although I suspect you did not intend to say clone with stgit.