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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

2009/8/19 Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> I think we have to, because if I had to read all that to look at some
> unfamiliar code in an unfamiliar VCS, I think I'd run away quickly!
>
> I'm not sure all that information is necessary though.  Thinking about how I
> make commando patches, I really want to just grab the code and start hacking
> immediately.  So the 'get a copy' instructions are crucial and I don't care
> right away if that's got built-in efficiencies for later, and I probably
> don't even care about pushing changes back.  Maybe I'll make a patch or
> maybe I'll abandon my hacking when I realize what a hornets nest the code
> is.  Point being, when there's a bug in some foreign code that's annoying me
> and that I think I can fix, I really want to go from threshold-of-pain to
> debugging-a-local-running-copy in as few steps as possible.  I don't need to
> know anything about git to run some monkeycommand to get a local copy of the
> source.

I'm not suggesting we should have all that inline in the page, of
course, just that we need at least a link to the guide.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>