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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Walter et al.-</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I did take the opportunity to add some
comments/clarifications to the Git FAQ. If I've misled anywhere, I hope to be
corrected.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As it stands now, I feel it is a good beginner
tutorial - one that just about anyone could follow fairly easily.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Thanks for both your help and encouragement, Walter
- and all others who jumped in.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Art Hunkins</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=walter.bender@gmail.com href="mailto:walter.bender@gmail.com">Walter
Bender</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=quozl@laptop.org
href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">James Cameron</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=abhunkin@uncg.edu
href="mailto:abhunkin@uncg.edu">Art Hunkins</A> ; <A
title=Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org
href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 29, 2010 9:33
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Sugar-devel] git problems
(reprise)</DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:03 AM, James Cameron <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:quozl@laptop.org">quozl@laptop.org</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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<DIV class=im>On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:16:55PM -0500, Art Hunkins
wrote:<BR>> My sources of gitorious info were: the Activity Team/Git FAQ,
the<BR>> Activity Team /Git Tutorial, and Importing your project from
OLPC.<BR>><BR>> I found the material disorganized, unnecessarily
abstruse and<BR>> technical, and not at all user-friendly (at least for
the beginner).<BR><BR></DIV>I agree. As I used it, I learned to use
other sources of guidance<BR>instead. The material on <A
href="http://sugarlabs.org" target=_blank>sugarlabs.org</A> and <A
href="http://laptop.org" target=_blank>laptop.org</A> presumes too
much<BR>foreknowledge.<BR>
<DIV class=im><BR>> Take, for example, the Git Tutorial - which I
expected to be the most<BR>> helpful of the above: three-quarters of the
material is nonessential,<BR>> and the info on creating an account and
SSH key are grossly<BR>> inadequate. Furthermore, there is no treatment
of anything but the git<BR>> *init* procedure - nothing about creating a
local depository through<BR>> pulling from gitorious (my particular
issue).<BR><BR></DIV>Taking your feedback into account, I've reworked the
page.<BR><A href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Git_Tutorial"
target=_blank>http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Activity_Team/Git_Tutorial</A><BR><BR>Please
review, comment, or edit accordingly.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR>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.)<BR><BR>Art, if you could add more
clarity there, it may help the next person who comes
along.<BR><BR>-walter<BR> <BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=h5><BR>--<BR>James Cameron<BR><A
href="http://quozl.linux.org.au/"
target=_blank>http://quozl.linux.org.au/</A><BR></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR
clear=all><BR>-- <BR>Walter Bender<BR>Sugar Labs<BR><A
href="http://www.sugarlabs.org">http://www.sugarlabs.org</A><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>