On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:03 AM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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