linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide

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Message-ID: <43952.1230093318@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:35:18 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@....de>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, torvalds@...l.org,
	git@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:27:23 PST, "Paul E. McKenney" said:

> I would be OK with it being in linux-2.6.git rather than git.git,
> if that helps.  Certainly there seems to be room for a description
> of how to use git within the Linux community.

What might help a lot of people (me, for one) would be a cookbook listing
how to do things that those of us on the fringe might want to do. For example:

"type this to pull Linus's tree, and this to bisect it" (I already know how
to do this one, actually)

"type this to pull a linux-next tree, and this to bisect it" (Last time I tried,
the pull went OK, but I couldn't figure out how to give 'git bisect' a
start/end commit that it was happy with).

"'git log foo/bar/baz.c' is your friend if you're chasing a recently added
bug/regression in baz.c"

Hmm... it occurs to me that my only actual use for git is to find a commit
ID so when I whinge to a developer, we're on the same page... ;)

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