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git-pasky "tutorial"

Subject: git-pasky "tutorial"

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3 messages between Apr 24, 2005 and Apr 26, 2005.

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Benjamin Herrenschmidt· Apr 24, 2005, 01:35 UTC · lore

Hi !

Is it really only my own stupidity, or is the "tutorial" in the README file in there only understandable if you in fact already know what it tries to explain ?

The more I read it, the more confused I am about the whole thing...

Is there some document somewhere that starts by explaining what are the concepts of "branch", "tracking", etc... in the context of git ?

Ben.

Petr Baudis· Apr 26, 2005, 19:57 UTC · re: Benjamin Herrenschmidt · lore

Re: git-pasky "tutorial"

Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:35:08AM CEST, I got a letter where Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> told me that...

> Hi !

Hi,

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> Is it really only my own stupidity, or is the "tutorial" in the README
> file in there only understandable if you in fact already know what it
> tries to explain ?
> 
> The more I read it, the more confused I am about the whole thing...
> 
> Is there some document somewhere that starts by explaining what are the
> concepts of "branch", "tracking", etc... in the context of git ?

you might want to try again with cogito-0.8; I hope I simplified the concepts a lot.

There is no tracking, and branches are trivial - branches correspond to repositories. When you do cg-init <remoterepo>, you get a branch origin which represents the remoterepo (and gets updated when you do cg-pull or cg-update), you can make Cogito know of more remote repositories by doing cg-branch-add.

Yes, the README sucks; but apparently it helps at least some people. ;-)

-- 
				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor

Benjamin Herrenschmidt· Apr 26, 2005, 22:42 UTC · re: Petr Baudis · lore

Re: git-pasky "tutorial"

> you might want to try again with cogito-0.8; I hope I simplified the
> concepts a lot.

Yup, I figured that out, thanks.

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> There is no tracking, and branches are trivial - branches correspond to
> repositories. When you do cg-init <remoterepo>, you get a branch origin
> which represents the remoterepo (and gets updated when you do cg-pull or
> cg-update), you can make Cogito know of more remote repositories by
> doing cg-branch-add.
> 
> 
> Yes, the README sucks; but apparently it helps at least some people. ;-)
>

-- 
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>