[GitHelp] Help desk support for developers moving to Git and modular Boost

Documentation will aid developers moving to Git and modular Boost. See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/WikiStart#GitandModularBoost Beyond documentation, simply asking questions via a search engine works particularly well for Git. There is a vast amount of Git material available on the web, including some excellent YouTube videos. But documentation, web searches, and YouTube videos are not enough. Learning Git can be daunting - Git has more surface area than Subversion and it isn't obvious at first why some operations need to be done in a certain sequence or in a certain way or why they even need to be done at all. Two or three developers at C++Now mentioned that they became discouraged when they inadvertently got painted into a Git corner and couldn't find a way out. And even experienced git uses occasionally run into something they need human help with. This post proposes a virtual "Help Desk" to provide Boost specific answers to the inevitable questions that will come up during the transition to Git and modular Boost. The idea is that postings with at [GitHelp] subject tag will signal a request for help wrt Git or modular Boost. Anyone who can help should jump right in with a response. Comments? Suggestions? --Beman

Beman Dawes wrote:
This post proposes a virtual "Help Desk" to provide Boost specific answers to the inevitable questions that will come up during the transition to Git and modular Boost. The idea is that postings with at [GitHelp] subject tag will signal a request for help wrt Git or modular Boost. Anyone who can help should jump right in with a response.
Comments? Suggestions?
Comment: I'm definitely willing to jump in with some help, when I can.

on Wed Dec 12 2012, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:
Anyone who can help should jump right in with a response.
Comments? Suggestions?
Beman already knows this, but I'm on board. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing Software Development Training http://www.boostpro.com Clang/LLVM/EDG Compilers C++ Boost
participants (3)
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Beman Dawes
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Dave Abrahams
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Julian Gonggrijp