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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:29:59 +0200
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Ludovic,

> Personally, I do not find git easy at all.  Monotone is much easier to
> understand and use IMHO.  The sheer number of commands and options in
> git is daunting; there are redundancies, overlaps and idiosyncrasies in
> this command set (e.g. does anyone on comp.lang.ada understand the
> subtle difference between git-merge-base and git-show-branch
> --merge-base ?)

No, but you don't need to call those commands directly. I've never used
them and I do branching/merging a lot :) There is two set of commands in
Git. The "user" oriented ones are described by:

   $ git

Others may be useful for building high level script to fit your needs.

Pascal.

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