From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Bruce Fields" Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:23 -0400 Message-ID: <20080717155723.GF11759@fieldses.org> References: <32541b130807161053w24a21d7bh1fa800a714ce75db@mail.gmail.com> <7v7iblsnfh.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <32541b130807161151x19c20f9t91b7fb9b8c7b8c7b@mail.gmail.com> <7vmykhr6h1.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <32541b130807161229ob4c21cbsc6c86ee3e42c4101@mail.gmail.com> <63BEA5E623E09F4D92233FB12A9F79430238A144@emailmn.mqsoftware.com> <20080717145120.GW32184@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Craig L. Ching" , Johannes Schindelin , Avery Pennarun , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Petr Baudis X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 17:58:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KJVsC-0007sl-Np for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:58:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757273AbYGQP53 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757145AbYGQP53 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:29 -0400 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([66.93.2.214]:48665 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756175AbYGQP53 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:29 -0400 Received: from bfields by fieldses.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KJVr9-0003RF-VR; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:57:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080717145120.GW32184@machine.or.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 04:51:20PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:21:58AM -0500, Craig L. Ching wrote: > > Maybe if Git had a few different workflows > > documented that might help. I know we have a "Git for SVN Users" > > workflow, but if you want to move beyond that, it might be good to have > > some of the more complex workflows documented. I think some people have > > hinted at that suggestion but that maybe it just hasn't been explicitly > > said. > > Yes, very recently, someone on #git asked about existing documented > workflows, and there is very little. It would be interesting project for > someone to build a 'Garden of Git Workflows' (or a Labyrinth) - That's been requested for a long time, but nobody's gotten around to it. It might be nice if it could be made a superset of everyday.txt. --b. > for each > workflow, detailed self-contained documentation ranging from lone developer > with topic branches over repo.or.cz/github forks workflow, the workflows > of "leaf contributors", lieutenants and main integrators of the mail-oriented > kernel/git workflow, up to the single-central-repository workflows. > > There are bits here and there, but the main problem is that they are not > self-contained. It might be nice to have something like a set of military > manuals, appropriate for the roles of the particular developers. > > -- > Petr "Pasky" Baudis > GNU, n. An animal of South Africa, which in its domesticated state > resembles a horse, a buffalo and a stag. In its wild condition it is > something like a thunderbolt, an earthquake and a cyclone. -- A. Pierce > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html