From: Jakub Narebski Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 23:08:39 GMT Subject: Re: git blame Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> Johannes Schindelin writes: >> >>> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Carl Worth wrote: >>> >>>> Here's a crazy idea. How about a "git tutorial" builtin or "git example" >>>> or something that would create a repository into some useful state for >>>> demonstrating something. >>> >>> That sounds fine! Actually, it should be very simple to turn the tutorial >>> into such a script, displaying the command with an explanation, and >>> executing the command. It could even call gitk from time to time, so the >>> user can form a mental model of the ancestor graph. >> >> Doesn't one of our existing t/ scripts do that? > > ;-) I did not forget... t1200-tutorial.sh > > But it serves a different purpose: it makes sure that we did not break the > commands in the tutorial. (I fear that the script and the tutorial have > diverged a little bit, though). > > git-tutorial should not test that, rather it should show the user what is > possible, and encourage playing with git. Something like Cogito tutorial-script? -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git