S Page wrote:
Note Mediawiki.org doesn't have a "Git tutorial". There are tons of those on the web...
Git+Gerrit is fundamentally hard and complicated...
So perhaps there could be a little section somewhere saying something like:
Using Git and Gerrit effectively requires understanding how they work. If you're used to "conventional" source code repositories like svn, you'll find git to be considerably different, in part because it's completely distributed, without any central repository which you "check files out of", much less that you "check files in to". Instead, with git, you mumble flarg the bjango in order to tnark your flittle and svetch it out to the rest of the hortlespoon. For a good explanation of this, see http://one.of.the/tons/of/good/tutorials/on/the/web.
(Obviously that's incomplete, but as someone who only understands conventional repositories that you check files out of and in to, I don't yet get git at all, myself, either.)