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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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