Topic on Talk:Gerrit/Tutorial/tl;dr

Moved

Hello, I propose to move this page to a better name. The name is a little bit confusing as novice users usually expect "getting started" to be a good novice tutorial. But for this purpose we have got /Tutorial page. And on this page are more likely an instructions for at least a little experienced users, some tl;dr of /Tutorial for those, who know, what to do, what these commands mean, just don't remember them, right?

I am not a good english speaker, so I don't know, how to say my suggested name in english, so I'll try to explain those czech words to english: something like "notes/lists of commands/methods usually used for working with Gerrit" (or something like "tl;dr" or "basic usage" or "short guide" or something)

https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T161901 might be of interest.

Well, at least this Tutorial I used as a novice user and this Getting started I use now as an experienced user as perfect. I wish some similar approach would be created also for Toollabs.

try https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Getting_Started ?

Tried, was not successfull, that tutorial is not really well written :/

how about https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Cloud_Services_Introduction ?

This is more like an intro than good novice tutorial and how-to guide. I tried to use Toolforge according to those tutorials unsuccessfully, but there is going to be some Toolforge workshop by Czech Wikimedia, so I'll learn to work with Toolforge there and then try to improve these tutorials to be usable for people like me: really technically based/knowledged/experienced people, who don't understand manuals provided and who would really use the service if know how to. But off-topic

Sigh.

I created this page in 2012 when MediaWiki was transitioning from SVN to Git. Back then, a lot of people, including myself, were not familiar with Git, and even fewer people were familiar with Gerrit. The page "Gerrit/Workflow" was written, but people complained that it's too long, because it was about 20 pages in print (since then it was quite appropriately renamed to Gerrit/Advanced usage). So somebody wrote Gerrit/Tutorial, with the purpose of being a simpler page. Unfortunately, that page also quickly grew to about 20 pages in print.

So I created this page with the intention of being a very short Git manual, which would give the most basic and frequently-needed commands, and link to other pages for more advanced or rarely needed info. In the invisible HTML comment at the top I wrote that it must remain under one page in print. To match this purpose, I called it "Git/TLDR".

I don't know why was it renamed to "Gerrit/Getting started".

I'm biased, of course, but I support moving it back to "Git/TLDR".

I'm fine with Gerrit/TLDR.

Moved, as it is mostly tl;dr of the Tutorial, I moved it as a subpage of it.