I guess the viewpoint and perspective from the more experienced users may
be different. The veterans may start to take some knowledge for granted, as
a given knowledge that they may thing people would already know.
For example, the underlying concept of git commit is something that I now
take for granted. But it's something that I have to really visit and talk
about when I'm teaching a friend to use git.
Perhaps we need contributions from people who have only just learned how to
properly use git, rather than only having veterans write the guide up.
People who still have the learning experience fresh in their minds.
And perhaps we also need contributions from people who routinely teach
their friends about git.
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, that was the point of [[Git/Getting started]]
because the Workflow
document sucks.
-Chad
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I was using these tutorials in past, and they
were pretty complicated
for me to understand git. I don't say it should be considered some
"official" documentation, rather something what desperate people could
use.
Git/Workflow and such are written by people who already understand git
- they don't see what seems complicated to newbies or what is really
hard and makes git evil to new users. I think some far, far simpler
guide like "git for dummies" or whatever similar, could be useful for
many new contributors who have no idea about git.
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Chad <innocentkiller(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Long time ago when I started learning with git I decided to create a
>> simple guide (basically I was just taking some notes of what is
>> needed). I never thought that it could be useful to anyone so I never
>> announced it anywhere. However I got some feedback to it, so I decided
>> to inform you too.
>>
>> The basic idea is to create a TOTALLY SIMPLE guide that git
>> illiterates like me can understand and thanks to which they would find
>> out how to do stuff in wikimedia git / gerrit.
>>
>> Link is here:
www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Petrb/Git_for_idiots
>>
>> It doesn't contain so much and there are some mistakes / feel free to
fix them.
>>
>> Since wikimedia switched to gerrit from svn I have yet met a tons of
>> people who had problems adapting to it, so this could eventually help
>> some.
>>
>
> We've got [[Git/Workflow]], [[Git/Tutorial]] and [[Git/Getting
> started]] (in decreasing
> order of complexity/depth), so I would be hesitant to add yet another
> howto page.
> Considering this is supposed to be quick-and-easy docs, I'd suggest
folding any
unique
content into the getting started doc.
-Chad
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