On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Alberto Ruiz <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/4/18 Sandy Armstrong <[email protected]>: >> Hi all, >> >> Just a quick note that I've been working a bit on cleaning up our git >> documentation. It is now centralized here: >> >> http://live.gnome.org/Git >> >> And the main developer howto has been simplified. It now recommends a >> single simple workflow of hacking, making a single commit, and >> generating a patch using `git format-patch HEAD^`: >> >> http://live.gnome.org/Git/Developers >> >> I really want to keep this page comprehensible for new contributors, >> as much as we can. If you have ideas for how to improve it, any help >> is welcome. Please keep in mind that I'm actually pretty new to git, >> and may not be aware of better workflows for new contributors. > Hi Sandy, > > great job. However I miss some docs for maintainers of new modules. > In freedesktop when you have a new empty repository, you can't clone > that repository (something that sounds like the natural first step, > specially for people used to subversion). So you have to create your > own repository, push it, and then set the origin properly. > > I found this step pretty confusing at the time.
http://live.gnome.org/NewGITRepos I'll make sure more places link to this. Thanks for the feedback, Sandy _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
