Re: Making git disappear when talking about my code

From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Apr 25, 2007, 19:22 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0704251521110.12375@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vfy6oxnzp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> I would agree with you that if you are talking to total git
> newbie, you cannot get away with message like [3] in your
> original and you would need some instructions you added in your
> example [2].  But I suspect that is true for any new system.  If
> somebody has never seen cvs and your project is hosted at cvs,
> and if you want to be really helpful, I think you have to tell
> "cvs -d :pserver:... co cworth-project" somewhere in your
> message.

You forget about "cvs -d :pserver:... login" that needs to be performed as well.

Nicolas

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