* Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> [150829 11:49]: > Todd Goodman wrote: > > * Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> [150828 18:35]: > >> 150828 Rich Freeman wrote: > >>> To really appreciate git you should understand git objects > >>> and their references, what a commit, tree, and blob are. > >>> Also, the whole copy-on-write concept and content-hashing concept. > >>> I used to think git looked really complicated until I sat > >>> through a 1 hr talk that focused mostly on the data model. > >>> Once you understand the data model, you understand everything. > >>> That doesn't take a lot of time. It does take a moderate amount of time > >>> learning the right things. They're not found in the manpages. > >>> Like I said, beautiful design, horrible interface. > >> So is there a Gentoo doc -- Wiki, presumably -- > >> explaining to users -- users, not dev's or Git addicts -- > >> the essentials of Git, so that they can readily update using it ? > >> If so, I'm willing to see if I can use it ; > >> if not, I would suggest it sb a top priority for dev's to write. > > You don't *need* to know anything about git to update using it. > > > > Just change your /etc/portage/repos.conf/gentoo.conf as Rich outlined > > (and move away your rsync'd /usr/portage or wherever your portage tree > > goes.) > > > > Then when you emerge --sync (or emaint -A sync, etc.) it will sync via > > git and emerge will work as always. > > > > Now if you want to do more or just want to learn more about git then > > that's different. > > > > Todd > > > > > > > > > I think what we are talking about is viewing things like the changelogs > and such, which are currently not synced with the tree. Or did we > change to some other topic and I missed it? I tracked back to Alan > Mackenzie's split of this thread > . > Dale
That's fine. I was addressing Philip wanting to update via git. If you want more than just synching and emerge then learn the one or two git commands you need. As Rich said, just use git log and git diff if you want to see changes. It's not hard, just different. Todd
