[Sugar-devel] git problems (reprise)

[James Simmons]

Art,

There is also a long chapter on Git in the "Make Your Own Sugar
Activities!" manual.  I'd be interested in your opinion of that
chapter.

James Simmons


On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:03 AM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> I made a few changes... the download file system is a bit different than you
> described. I also did a first pass at reworking the description of git on
> the Activity_Team ;page itself (incorporating Sascha's text and pointing
> people towards your tutorial.)
>
> Art, if you could add more clarity there, it may help the next person who
> comes along.
>
> -walter
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>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.linux.org.au/
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> Walter Bender
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