User:Det/Git

Rethinking the Git article

Problem

The Git article has grown incredibly large with tons of information, very little of which is essential to duplicate and maintain outside of the upstream documentation.

See Talk:Git.

Task

Rewrite Git for simplicity, easier reading, and take major advantage of upstream documentation by linking directly to it.

Draft #1

"[W]e should turn this into a real tutorial that starts a repo from scratch and adds 2 or 3 files and does simple stuff with them, explaining committing, branching etc. along the way, with brief explanations and links to the upstream docs for details. Then a second similar tutorial could be made to clone a repo and participate to an existing project, avoiding to restate what was already said in the first tutorial." — Kynikos (talk)

Draft #2

"[W]e should use it for strictly Arch-related content (perhaps a short AUR workflow) and rope to use upstream documentation if needed." — Alad (talk)