Todd Goodman wrote: > * Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> [150829 11:49]: >> Todd Goodman wrote: >>> * Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> [150828 18:35]: >>>> 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. >>> You don't *need* to know anything about git to update using it. >>> >>> Just change your /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf as Rich outlined >>> (and move away your rsync'd /usr/portage or wherever your portage tree >>> goes.) >>> >>> Then when you emerge --sync (or emaint -A sync, etc.) it will sync via >>> git and emerge will work as always. >>> >>> Now if you want to do more or just want to learn more about git then >>> that's different. >>> >>> Todd >>> >>> >>> >> >> I think what we are talking about is viewing things like the changelogs >> and such, which are currently not synced with the tree. Or did we >> change to some other topic and I missed it? I tracked back to Alan >> Mackenzie's split of this thread >> . >> Dale > That's fine. I was addressing Philip wanting to update via git. > > If you want more than just synching and emerge then learn the one or two > git commands you need. > > As Rich said, just use git log and git diff if you want to see changes. > > It's not hard, just different. > > Todd > >
Oh I see now. I was thinking he was talking about how to get the changelogs. It seems he was talking about the tree itself, I guess. Dale :-) :-)
