From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262004AbVFWBqV (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:46:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261987AbVFWBoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:44:37 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:922 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261972AbVFWBnG (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:43:06 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:45:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Christian Kujau cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers In-Reply-To: <42BA0E0B.3080302@g-house.de> Message-ID: References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <42BA0E0B.3080302@g-house.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Christian Kujau wrote: > > hm, isn't cogito doing this already? Yes, but I want git to at least be usable stand-alone, and have example scripts for the basics. More specifically, I want to release a git-1.0, and I want to have a tutorial that tells people how to use it so that they can get started scripting (so that I can get out of that business again). I have the beginnings of one, but quite frankly, last time I showed it to somebody it became very clear that it may be intuitive when you already understand what git is doing, but if you're not interested in that, and just want a CVS replacement, it was just "strange". So I want "raw git" to be good enough that I can write a tutorial, and people can pick it up. In contrast, what I think/hope the goals of cogito are is to have all the nice color coding, the graphical commit tools, man-pages, etc. All the things that made BK a pleasure to use (for example, I never used the BK command line tools, I used the graphical "bk commit" thing. I know, I know, I'm not a real man). Linus