Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses: reductio ad absurdum

[Todd Goodman]

* Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> [150828 18:35]:
> 150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
> > To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
> > and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
> > Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept.
> > I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat
> > through a  1 hr talk that focused mostly on the data model.
> > Once you understand the data model, you understand everything.
> > That doesn't take a lot of time.  It does take a moderate amount of time
> > learning the right things.  They're not found in the manpages.
> > Like I said, beautiful design, horrible interface.
>
> So is there a Gentoo doc -- Wiki, presumably --
> explaining to users -- users, not dev's or Git addicts --
> the essentials of Git, so that they can readily update using it ?
> If so, I'm willing to see if I can use it ;
> if not, I would suggest it sb a top priority for dev's to write.

You don't *need* to know anything about git to update using it.

Just change your /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf as Rich outlined
(and move away your rsync'd /usr/portage or wherever your portage tree
goes.)

Then when you emerge --sync (or emaint -A sync, etc.) it will sync via
git and emerge will work as always.

Now if you want to do more or just want to learn more about git then
that's different.

Todd