>Biggest disadvantage I see on the official documents is they don't >contain the hypothetical situation when something is wrong, they are >relying on the fact that everything is as it's supposed to be - >perfect. That user has perfectly configured system, that user doesn't >accidentally break repository or get lost in some process and stuck as >they can't continue for whatever reason.
I couldn't resist posting on this thread. I am relatively a new MediaWiki developer and I started bug fixing 2 months ago during which I had to go through https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial and many other references spread over the Internet. The Tutorial assumes that everything goes smoothly. Although the https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Advanced_usage#Troubleshooting article does solve few of the problems, there are still many issues to be highlighted like what should the user do to undo a commit, some information regarding staging and unstaging would be helpful, commands like "git show <hash>" to view the changes after a developer commits, use of git log with the option "-p". These are just a few features that I would love to see and maybe other new developers too. Thanks On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:05 AM, S Page <sp...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > I think that it might be a good idea to add another tutorial for > complete newbies. > > Note Mediawiki.org doesn't have a "Git tutorial". There are tons of those > on the web. Thanks to recent work (by Quim and others I think) we have > three fairly rational pages, > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Getting_started > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Advanced_usage > > Improve those. I'm certain more pages won't help. Git+Gerrit is > fundamentally hard and complicated with lots of steps and commands, so the > tutorial is going to be long with lots of sections. Additional pages > writing down "Stuff I found difficult before and after going through the > tutorial" just add to the confusion. > > Petr's document is useful for the dwindling band of people familiar with > svn, and I'm not sure why it mentions git push (I never use it, I use git > review with gerrit). > > A big problem with the documents is inconsistent setup. They don't even > agree whether the remote should be called origin, gerrit, or review, > because the experts who add to them have different opinions. > > -- > =S Page software engineer on E3 > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
