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Emanuele Rusconi wrote:
> For anybody who thinks git is hard, I'll just leave here my own
> thoughts on the matter.
>
> As a user - not specifically a Gentoo user - I only need to know 3 commands:
>
>   - git clone <URI>
>   - git pull
>   - tig
>
> That's it. Tig is in dev-vcs/tig, BTW, and it's really handy.
>
> When I experimented with managing my config files with git I did a lot
> of reading (I was new to VCS in general), and in the end I realized
> that, although git is really powerful and complex, for my needs I
> actually really needed to know just a handful of basic commands, and I
> could use tig and/or gitk for almost anything.
>
> -- Emanuele Rusconi
>
>

Pardon me.  I just had to get up off the floor and return my tummy to
its previous and correct condition.  I thought I would check out the git
man page and just sorta skim over it.  The first thing I see is this:

NAME

git - the stupid content tracker

Now that is funny.  ROFL  Maybe there is hope for me yet.  LOL 

Dale

:-)  :-)