Re: [DRAFT 2] Branching and merging with git

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Dec 4, 2006, 10:56 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612041153330.28348@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20061204072350.GC28043@fieldses.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> So I'm trying to split out an extremely concise "quick-start" guide 
> (modelled partly on Mercurial's) that doesn't even pretend to explain 
> anything,

you might want to look at the QuickStart page in Git's wiki...

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> 	  	1. clone
> 		2. checking out old versions, basic branch management
> 		3. keeping up-to-date with fetch
> 		4. bisect
> 		5. archaeology (commits DAG, git-log, ...)
> 		6. creating commits, index file
> 		7. resolving merges, pull
> 		8. publishing a public repository, push

Another approach would be to illustrate short stories of a failed merge, or "how I put up a public repository", etc. Like, more example-based (and of course short enough that people actually read through it).

Ciao, Dscho