Re: git for dummies, anyone?

[Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org>]

* Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> [2006-02-09 16:35:46 +0100]:

> El Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:17:41 -0500,
> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> escribió:
> 
> 
> > Check out:
> > http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
> 
> That is a nice guide, but is oriented to developers, I think jes
> was asking from a user POV (I've needed to google for such things
> several times) ie how to switch to a given tag and return to master,
> how to update the repository periodically, etc; no stuff about how to
> manage patches. It may be nice to see such thing on your guide, something
> like this:
> 
> 
> - How to get a copy of linus'tree
>   git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> - Update your copy:
>   cd linux-2.6; git pull; git pull --tags
> 
> - How to go back to a certain snapshot
>   git reset --hard v2.6.13 (ls .git/refs/tags to see all the tags). Not the
>   cleanest method, I think. "git-checkout -f master" will return to the "head"
>   of the repository. You can also pass commit-IDs to git-reset instead of tags?
> 
> - bisect search
>   git reset --hard BrokenVersion
>   git bisect start
>   git bisect good v2.6.13-rc2

I can be sooo easy. Thanks! ;)

Marc