Case in point: the last two paragraphs you just wrote should be written up somewhere other than the mailing list archives. :-P
Stefan Sperling wrote on Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 12:21:42 +0100: > On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 07:20:44AM +0000, Cooke, Mark wrote: > > > Do I have to have my working folder and svn folder have the same name? > > Did you read the [free!] link that I gave you yesterday? > > [1] http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/index.html > > > > [2] http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/index.html > > James, please read these links if you already haven't done so. > Especially the first 2 chapters of the svnbook. > > A lot of time and effort has been put into writing these texts. > They generally provide much more comprehensive and better answers > to basic questions than this list can. > > It's fine to ask questions here if you don't understand something > in the documentation, or if the documentation doesn't cover your > question, or if you simply fail to locate the answer in the text (that > happens to many, it's no big deal). > But asking without consulting the documentation first amounts to asking > people here to repeat work which others have already put into the docs. > And generally the answers provided here will be terse and of lower didactic > quality than a properly written text book. > So while quickly mailing a question to the list and waiting for an answer > might seem like quicker turnaround than reading through a book it is > actually counter-productive for both your own learning experience as > well as for those who explain things on this list again even though the > documentation already covers the material. > > I hope you understand this, and I hope you have fun learning and using > Subversion! Feel free to keep asking if you don't understand something. > But when doing so please try to point out where the docs are failing you > so that we can improve them for the benefit of the entire user base. Thanks!
