150828 Rich Freeman wrote:
> To really appreciate git you should understand git objects
> and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are.
> Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept.
> I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat
> through a  1 hr talk that focused mostly on the data model.
> Once you understand the data model, you understand everything.
> That doesn't take a lot of time.  It does take a moderate amount of time
> learning the right things.  They're not found in the manpages.
> Like I said, beautiful design, horrible interface.

So is there a Gentoo doc -- Wiki, presumably --
explaining to users -- users, not dev's or Git addicts --
the essentials of Git, so that they can readily update using it ?
If so, I'm willing to see if I can use it ;
if not, I would suggest it sb a top priority for dev's to write.

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