Hi,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
[...]
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> 
> I had the pleasure of introducing Git to a few users in the last months 
> and in my opinion, restricting myself to teaching them these commands 
> first helped tremendously:
> 
> - clone, pull, status, add, commit, push, log
> 
> All of these were presented without options, to keep things simple.

Basically I agree, but depending on the user's foreign SCM knowledge
it could be useful to talk about some basic "low-level" concepts of git
(without talking about the plumbing).

I mean:
 - objects (commits, trees, blobs ... in very short)
 - index
and perhaps
 - refs (at least branches)

I was told that before I've seen a first git command and I still think
that was very useful.

Hmm, just recalling, my first git commands were:
 1. init
 2. add
 3. status
 4. commit
 5. diff
 6. log
 7. branch
 8. checkout
in this order, approximately. :)

(And I've used rebase before merge and I haven't used clone/pull/push for
a long time.)

It seems I haven't touched any plumbing before I've started with GSoC :)

I also think that for a user it is totally irrelevant if it is plumbing or
porcelain she is using, as long as it works. I mean, if I tought someone
using git, I'd never use the words "porcelain" or "plumbing".

Regards,
  Stephan

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Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>, PGP 0x6EDDD207FCC5040F
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