Thread (2 messages) flat view 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: Little fix and suggestion for the git tutorial

From: J. Bruce Fields <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:17

On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 06:45:01PM +0200, Carlos Rica wrote:
Sorry for not sending a patch, I was following the tutorial and found
this, in the section "Using git for collaboration":

307 With this, you can perform the first operation alone using the
308 "git fetch" command without merging them with her own branch,
309 using:

I think that "you" should be replaced with "she".
Yep, thanks.  Actually, I think we should make it "Alice".
I have a suggestion also that I don't know how to fix. The text in
that section seems to say something like you need to add a "remote"
alias to be able to run fetch for retrieving without merging:
Yes, I agree, it's confusing.  We're trying to introduce both fetch and
remotes at the same time.

It might be the simplest thing to do would just be to use remotes from
the start.  I don't know.  I haven't looked at this section in a
while--I'll try to find time this weekend and see if I can come up with
a better approach.

--b.
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