Re: Git 1.0 Synopis (Draft v2)

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jul 27, 2005, 22:13 UTC
Message-ID: <7vek9jq4n5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050727100123.GH19290@mythryan2.michonline.com>

Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:

> Source Code Management with Git

Thanks for doing this.  Generally looks excellent.

>   o Two, interchangeable, on-disk formats are used:
>     o An efficient, packed format that saves spaced and network
>       bandwidth.

??? "spaced" ???

> 	Or via Git itself:
> 	git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
> 	git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/
> 	(rsync is generally faster for an initial pull)

These need a target directory name to create, like this:

    git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ $new_dir
    git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/ $new_dir

> Git results from the inspiration and frustration of Linus Torvalds, and
> the enthusiastic help of over 300 participants on the development
> mailing list.[1]  It is maintained by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>.

Please drop the e-mail address here; you mention nobody else's.

Well, dropping "the current maintainer" information altogether might be even better; the above to a casual reader sounds like Linus was frustrated and I wrote it for him, which is definitely not what we would like to say. I suspect it still has more code by Linus than anybody else (I stopped counting some time ago).