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Am Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:23:26 -0500 |
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schrieb Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>: |
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> Emanuele Rusconi wrote: |
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> > For anybody who thinks git is hard, I'll just leave here my own |
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> > thoughts on the matter. |
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> > |
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> > As a user - not specifically a Gentoo user - I only need to know 3 commands: |
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> > |
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> > - git clone <URI> |
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> > - git pull |
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> > - tig |
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> > That's it. Tig is in dev-vcs/tig, BTW, and it's really handy. |
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> > When I experimented with managing my config files with git I did a lot |
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> > of reading (I was new to VCS in general), and in the end I realized |
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> > that, although git is really powerful and complex, for my needs I |
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> > actually really needed to know just a handful of basic commands, and I |
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> > could use tig and/or gitk for almost anything. |
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> > -- Emanuele Rusconi |
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> > |
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> > |
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> Pardon me. I just had to get up off the floor and return my tummy to |
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> its previous and correct condition. I thought I would check out the git |
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> man page and just sorta skim over it. The first thing I see is this: |
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> NAME |
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> git - the stupid content tracker |
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> Now that is funny. ROFL Maybe there is hope for me yet. LOL |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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My favorite bit is a quote from Linus Torvalds himself: "I'm an egotistical |
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bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now |
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'Git'." [0]. (For anyone like me who doesn't get it at first, see [1].) |
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[0] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Git_FAQ#Why_the_.27Git.27_name.3F |
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[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/git#English |
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-- |
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Marc Joliet |
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-- |
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we |
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don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup |
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