[PATCH 0/1] FAQ for common user questions

["brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>]

Git is an enormously flexible and power piece of software, but many
people find it confusing and hard to use.  Over the time I've been
contributing, I've noticed a lot of the same questions keep coming up
over and over.  Some of these questions are well answered by existing
documentation, but people have trouble finding it.  Others are not
answered, and still others are questions about integrating with common
tools and hosting platforms.

To help people find and discover this documentation, let's provide a FAQ
that covers common issues.  A lot of these issues are things I've seen
asked on Stack Overflow or elsewhere and we'd be doing everyone a
service if we included some stock answers in one place in our
documentation.

The FAQ is designed to be conversational, approachable, and geared
towards a competent novice user.  However, it also addresses questions
that I've seen from technically advanced colleagues.  I've tried to make
it address common questions about integrations with other tools, such as
CI systems and hosting platforms, without mentioning any specific tool
by name.  This keeps us neutral on particular tools, but recognizes that
these tools are a common part of people's development experiences.

I definitely think we'll add more questions as we go along, but this
seems like a reasonable start for now.  I'd love feedback about the
phrasing of questions or answers, anything I've missed, and anything
that might be technically inaccurate, especially about Windows.

brian m. carlson (1):
  docs: add a FAQ

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 Documentation/gitfaq.txt | 330 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 Documentation/gitfaq.txt