Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

Theodore Tso [off-list ref] writes:

Have you taken a look at the intro-level materials such as "Everyday
Git in 20 commands or so"[1], the git tutorial[2], the official "Git's
User Manual"[3], or the "Git-SVN crash course"[4]?  Those are probably
the best place to begin --- and to basically treat the git man pages
as reference materials with a huge number of controls that you won't
use or need to use for a long time --- if ever.

Good advice.

One caution is that I wrote the Everyday quite a while ago, certainly way
before 1.5.0, and I suspect the set of best commands and best ways to do
what these sections demonstrate to do may have changed.  I do not think
old ways stopped working (that would be a regression), but there would be
better ways invented after the document was last updated.