Re: Yet another Git tutorial

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 28, 2008, 23:34 UTC
Message-ID: <7v63u1blkm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080428222717.GA6160@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> writes:

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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:39:46AM -0400, John Wiegley wrote:
>> I published another tutorial on Git today, this one describing the  
>> system from a "bottom up" perspective.  I know it's been written about  
>> this way before, but I was aiming at a bit more thoroughness, and a  
>> paced introduction to the basics.
>> 
>> There's a link to the PDF is in the following blog post:
>> 
>>   http://www.newartisans.com/blog_files/git.from.bottom.up.php
>
> In addition to what was mentioned before me:
>
> On page 6, instead of `git show --pretty=format:%T HEAD | head -1`, it
> is better to use `git log -1 --pretty=format:'%T' HEAD`. In general,
> `git show <commit-object>` is `git log -1 -p <commit-object>`, and
> you do not need diff here.

I may be misunderstanding what the discussion is about as I was not following the thread, but is this a contest to find the most expensive way to spell "git rev-parse HEAD^{tree}"?