New 0.5 draft of the SemPiTernal HOWTO

[Eric S. Raymond]

Frank <frank at nicholasfamilycentral.com>:
> >> I’m not following the “blink” table.  It’s not jumping out at me or
> >> making sense…
> > 
> > LED blink interval in seconds - telly you fix vs no fix.
> 
> Right - *I* understand how the LED works.  What are the values in the table - Blinks per second?  Seconds between blinks?

Seconds between blinks.  I've added a caption to this effect,

> >> For cloning a GIT repository, I’ve used “- - depth=1” to get what I
> >> think is just the top, latest version?  If my understanding is
> >> correct, this will be quicker for people on slow connections.  If
> >> I’m wrong about what this does in GIT, please correct my
> >> understanding.  Is there a down side to using depth=1?
> > 
> > Will a later git pull work on a repo pulled this way?
> 
> I don’t know.  For my purposes, I usually wipe out the previous clone & clone again.  I’m a git novice.  I started using “depth=1” for large repos.
> 
> If you tell me how to test, I’m glad to find the answer.

Do a "git pull". If it tells you its getting commits rather than barfing,
we're good.  (I just modified tod/NEWS.)
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>