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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
