[Fwd: Echo Icons Tutorial - Working with Git]

[Paul W. Frields]

This is on the Artwork list -- maybe Martin's work could be of use to
people in migrating our CVS documentation to individual hosted projects.
Git seems a little weird at first if you're really used to CVS and SVN,
but it's super powerful and pretty much everyone seems to be moving to
it now.

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Martin Sourada 
> Reply-To: Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora,
> including icons, themes, and wallpapers. 
> To: Discussions about the artwork included with Fedora, including
> icons, themes, and wallpapers. 
> Subject: Echo Icons Tutorial - Working with Git
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:51:26 +0200
>
> Hi,
>
> I finished another tutorial for the echo icon theme, this time targeted
> at artists that might be afraid of having to work with git [1]. I hope I
> explained the steps we use to set up and use git repository good enough;
> if not, shout loud what section you do not understand and together we'll
> improve it ;-)
>
> Of course, I also put it on my blog [2] ;-)
>
> Comments welcome,
> Martin
>
> References:
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/echo-icon-theme/wiki/WorkingWithGit
> [2]
> http://mso-chronicles.blogspot.com/2008/06/echo-icons-working-with-git.html
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[Karsten Wade]

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 10:11 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> This is on the Artwork list -- maybe Martin's work could be of use to
> people in migrating our CVS documentation to individual hosted projects.
> Git seems a little weird at first if you're really used to CVS and SVN,
> but it's super powerful and pretty much everyone seems to be moving to
> it now.

+1 to declaring git the default Docs Project SCM.  I'm brand-new with
it, I still get stumbles, but it is clearly more useful than the CVS/SVN
paradigm.

I'd prefer to see *all* of our hosted books using the same SCM, to
simplify training in Docs.  Since we finally have the chance to abandon
CVS, let's not do the half-step to SVN.  We're not some enterprise
constrained by process and archaic beliefs!

Writer groups who start off a book on fedorahosted.org have the right to
make their own choice, but a very strong recommendation of a specific
SCM seems like a sane idea to me.  (Then we can just debate the specific
SCM.)

;-D

- Karsten