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Re: Get rid of .git/branches/ and .git/remotes/?

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ABAdrien Beau <adrienbeau@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 22, 2005, 20:13 UTC
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On 11/22/05, Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.git@rawuncut.elitemail.org> wrote:
>
> who is the target audience of git?  I get the
> feeling that most users will be programmers, so that's kind of a
> non-argument (even though I agree with your standpoint).

If Git is successful, then there will also be a lot of bleeding-edge users, people who want to be able to:

* Get the latest and greatest (and build it and run it)
* Browse the repository (with gitk or gitweb)
* Maybe (very occasionnally) create a simple patch

This is already the case with CVS, plenty of people know (or are instructed to do) cvs checkout, cvs update, and nothing more. That's not much, but they're CVS users, nevertheless.

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  1. linux@horizon.comNov 22, 2005
  2. Linus TorvaldsNov 22, 2005
  3. linux@horizon.comNov 22, 2005
  4. Andreas EricssonNov 22, 2005
  5. Nikolai WeibullNov 22, 2005
  6. Adrien BeauNov 22, 2005
  7. Andreas EricssonNov 22, 2005
  8. linux@horizon.comNov 22, 2005
  9. Andreas EricssonNov 22, 2005

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