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Todd Goodman wrote: |
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> * Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> [150829 11:49]: |
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>> Todd Goodman wrote: |
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>>> * Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> [150828 18:35]: |
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>>>> 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>>>> To really appreciate git you should understand git objects |
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>>>>> and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are. |
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>>>>> Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept. |
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>>>>> I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat |
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>>>>> through a 1 hr talk that focused mostly on the data model. |
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>>>>> Once you understand the data model, you understand everything. |
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>>>>> That doesn't take a lot of time. It does take a moderate amount of time |
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>>>>> learning the right things. They're not found in the manpages. |
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>>>>> Like I said, beautiful design, horrible interface. |
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>>>> So is there a Gentoo doc -- Wiki, presumably -- |
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>>>> explaining to users -- users, not dev's or Git addicts -- |
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>>>> the essentials of Git, so that they can readily update using it ? |
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>>>> If so, I'm willing to see if I can use it ; |
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>>>> if not, I would suggest it sb a top priority for dev's to write. |
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>>> You don't *need* to know anything about git to update using it. |
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>>> Just change your /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf as Rich outlined |
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>>> (and move away your rsync'd /usr/portage or wherever your portage tree |
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>>> goes.) |
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>>> Then when you emerge --sync (or emaint -A sync, etc.) it will sync via |
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>>> git and emerge will work as always. |
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>>> Now if you want to do more or just want to learn more about git then |
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>>> that's different. |
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>>> Todd |
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>> I think what we are talking about is viewing things like the changelogs |
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>> and such, which are currently not synced with the tree. Or did we |
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>> change to some other topic and I missed it? I tracked back to Alan |
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>> Mackenzie's split of this thread |
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>> Dale |
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> That's fine. I was addressing Philip wanting to update via git. |
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> If you want more than just synching and emerge then learn the one or two |
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> git commands you need. |
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> As Rich said, just use git log and git diff if you want to see changes. |
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> It's not hard, just different. |
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> Todd |
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Oh I see now. I was thinking he was talking about how to get the |
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changelogs. It seems he was talking about the tree itself, I guess. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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