15:16:47 <mchua> #startmeeting
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15:17:11 <mchua> #link http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP
15:24:41 * Hellis_ so 'yum' is a tool like 'apt-get'
15:26:04 <mchua> #note Nice catch on the apt-get vs yum clarification - I've just fixed it on the wiki page.
15:26:24 <mchua> #link http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/index.php?title=Sugar_on_a_Stick%2FDocumentation_SOP&action=historysubmit&diff=59087&oldid=53297
15:27:20 <mchua> #note The instructions the class has been given: (1) work through this page, and (2) holler if you're stuck for more than 30 seconds, so we can fix the documentation that's confusing you.
15:27:30 <mchua> #note If this works, by the end we should have (1) taught everyone git, and (2) improved the docs.
15:28:36 <JustinD> publican is not available for ubuntu 9.10 - you have to temporarily access the lucid repository
15:29:31 <JustinD> for more information please see this link: http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/pug/chap-Users_Guide-Installing_Publican.html#sect-Users_Guide-Installing_Publican_on_Linux_operating_systems-Installing_Publican_on_Ubuntu
15:31:04 <mchua> Nice catch, JustinD. If folks get stuck on those instructions, holler either here or in the classroom.
15:32:49 <polaskj> Are we just skipping over commit and push?
15:32:50 <amcgrath> mchua, should there be a small blurb about the add command?
15:33:42 <mchua> polaskj: We've got http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Documentation_SOP#If_you_have_commit_access with a blurb on "okay, now run the commit command," but you're right - it's not very clearly laid out... how would you change it?
15:33:47 <mchua> amcgrath: Hrm. Where would you put that?
15:34:03 <mchua> amcgrath: The answer is "probably" :)
15:34:34 <mchua> (see, you folks are catching things we didn't see before - now that I think about it, I'm going "oh yeah, we should have done that, but I just forgot completely.")
15:34:39 <mchua> (so thank you for pointing this stuff out!)
15:34:50 <amcgrath> mchua: Do you need to 'add' files before using the commit command?
15:34:55 <mchua> amcgrath: Yep.
15:35:06 <mchua> amcgrath: git add name-of-file
15:35:13 <amcgrath> cool
15:35:32 <mchua> amcgrath: I think the reason it wasn't in there before is that the tutorial assumes that you're editing existing files (which are already "added").
15:35:50 <amcgrath> ohh
15:35:58 <mchua> But yeah, if you were to add a new file to the repository, you would have to 'git add' it.
15:36:01 <mchua> Make sense?
15:36:03 * mchua not sure if she's being clear here
15:36:09 <amcgrath> gotcha
15:36:12 <amcgrath> no it makes sense
15:36:25 <mchua> amcgrath: Glad you pointed that out, though - I mean, it /is/ a good thing to know how to add new files to a repository...
15:37:41 <amcgrath> I was just confused because we made a patch and then are using the commit command, which is committing the Book_Info file but not the patch we created
15:46:27 <amcgrath> mchua: so is the patch only for people without commit access, or does it always get used?
15:50:56 <mchua> #endmeeting