# git-pasky "tutorial" 3 messages from 2005-04-24 to 2005-04-26. Participants: Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Petr Baudis. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/279 ## Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2005-04-24 01:35 Subject: git-pasky "tutorial" Message-ID: <1114306508.5444.7.camel@gaston> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1114306508.5444.7.camel%40gaston ``` 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, 2005-04-26 19:57 Subject: Re: git-pasky "tutorial" Message-ID: <20050426195752.GG13224@pasky.ji.cz> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20050426195752.GG13224%40pasky.ji.cz In-Reply-To: <1114306508.5444.7.camel@gaston> ``` Dear diary, on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 03:35:08AM CEST, I got a letter where Benjamin Herrenschmidt told me that... > Hi ! 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 ? 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 , 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, 2005-04-26 22:42 Subject: Re: git-pasky "tutorial" Message-ID: <1114555322.7182.77.camel@gaston> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1114555322.7182.77.camel%40gaston In-Reply-To: <20050426195752.GG13224@pasky.ji.cz> ``` > you might want to try again with cogito-0.8; I hope I simplified the > concepts a lot. Yup, I figured that out, thanks. > There is no tracking, and branches are trivial - branches correspond to > repositories. When you do cg-init , 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 ```