From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Valdemar_M=F8rch?= Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:35:22 +0200 Message-ID: <487F4A9A.1090108@morch.com> References: <487EF519.5070902@sneakemail.com> <20080717125536.GO2167@mit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 17 15:55:43 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 1KJTxI-0000uY-Fh for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:55:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756111AbYGQNyb convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:54:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756910AbYGQNyb (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:54:31 -0400 Received: from morch.com ([193.58.255.207]:55972 "EHLO morch.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755750AbYGQNyb (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:54:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1144 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:54:30 EDT Received: from [192.168.1.214] (ANice-157-1-140-70.w90-52.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.52.83.70]) by morch.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC64283E for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:36:54 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080502) In-Reply-To: <20080717125536.GO2167@mit.edu> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Theodore Tso tytso-at-mit.edu |Lists| wrote: > The top-level man page has a listing of what is porcelain and what is > plumbing --- although there is some disagreement. Cool! I missed that! Thanks. > Have you taken a look at the intro-level materials such as "Everyday > Git in 20 commands or so"[1], the git tutorial[2], the official "Git'= s > User Manual"[3], or the "Git-SVN crash course"[4]? Yup. I started there and am happily coding, committing, branching &=20 merging away. Now man pages are closest to my fingers in the terminal. = :-) E.g. something I seem to succeed with sometimes, but not consistently i= s=20 the equivalent of "svn revert -R .". "git help reset"? Yup: "git reset=20 --hard HEAD ." When I run into merge conflicts, I'll probably look at=20 such a doc again, but other than that I'll probably use man pages most. Just wanted to offer the newbie's opinion, that it would be helpful for= =20 me with "Here be plumbing. Newbies look elsewhere" notices when I'm on=20 my way down the wrong track. Peter --=20 Peter Valdemar M=F8rch http://www.morch.com