[Sugar-devel] git problems (reprise)

[James Cameron]

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:16:55PM -0500, Art Hunkins wrote:
> My sources of gitorious info were: the Activity Team/Git FAQ, the
> Activity Team /Git Tutorial, and Importing your project from OLPC.
>  
> I found the material disorganized, unnecessarily abstruse and
> technical, and not at all user-friendly (at least for the beginner).

I agree.  As I used it, I learned to use other sources of guidance
instead.  The material on sugarlabs.org and laptop.org presumes too much
foreknowledge.

> Take, for example, the Git Tutorial - which I expected to be the most
> helpful of the above: three-quarters of the material is nonessential,
> and the info on creating an account and SSH key are grossly
> inadequate. Furthermore, there is no treatment of anything but the git
> *init* procedure - nothing about creating a local depository through
> pulling from gitorious (my particular issue).

Taking your feedback into account, I've reworked the page.
http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Git_Tutorial

Please review, comment, or edit accordingly.

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/