Rick Welykochy wrote:
Chris Cormack wrote:
One of my colleagues from work is off to a git get together, and Is asking if anyone has anything they really wish was different with git. I said I would ask the koha developers as we have used git for a while now. So any suggestions send them my way and I will pass them on to Sam
Some of the errors and recovery procedures are a bit confusing. The one which got me yesterday is the error "File exists" when another user with a too-secure umask has created files in the git repository. What it actually meant was that the file exists and my git couldn't delete/modify it.
Yes! Please flatten the learning curve or at least make it less steep.
How?
Yes again! Provide some git for idyots doco.
What exactly do you want? There's already http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html in the distribution and others outside it like http://wiki.sourcemage.org/Git_Guide
And again! Provide some hybrid (macro?) commands that make it conceptually easier for those coming from CVS to use git.
One problem is that CVS is actually conceptually broken, which was part of the motive for git, but there's http://git.or.cz/course/cvs.html (which uses cg not git, but I think the actual commands in light blue are interchangable apart from the switch command); or http://www.chem.helsinki.fi/~jonas/git_guides/HTML/CVS2git/CVS2git.html#SECT... Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray (slef) LMS developer and webmaster at | software www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk | .... co IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html | .... op