Just looking at the flow of a new user's questions in this example:
http://drupal.org/node/1120336#comment-5367754

Wondering if we can make some usability improvements to the description here:
http://drupal.org/node/306118/git-instructions

This guy wanted to make a patch to help move this issue queue along and get out a D7 release (I told him that might help the developer review it).

Anyways, he got lost in the information about git that was available when really it should have been 5 simple steps.

1. git clone --branch 6.x-1.x http://git.drupal.org/project/draft.git
2. cd draft
3. cp -r ../my_version_of_draft/* .
4. git diff >[description]-[issue-number]-[comment-number].patch
5. upload to the appropriate issue in the issue queue http://drupal.org/project/issues/draft?categories=All

Could we color code or in some other way illustrate either who would need to know different pieces of information about git? Breaking it down into roles that someone might have would make it easier to contribute.

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gobinathm
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CreditAttribution: gobinathm at TATA Consultancy Services for Johnson & Johnson commented
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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

I believe we already have this information, in the form of Advanced patch contributor guide. If you feel this information is not sufficient please feel free to reopen