From fec0e3a5636179fcd71fbf2e004e164c753c9725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:42:07 -0500
Subject: new user note

---
 main.go           | 14 +++++++++++++-
 resources/NEWUSER | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 resources/NEWUSER

diff --git a/main.go b/main.go
index e5b3e83..274a550 100644
--- a/main.go
+++ b/main.go
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"embed"
+	"fmt"
 
+	"go.wit.com/lib/fhelp"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/gui/prep"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/gui/shell"
 	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb"
@@ -36,7 +38,17 @@ func main() {
 
 	// the current forge init process
 	me.forge = forgepb.Init() // init forge.pb
-	me.forge.ScanRepoDir()    // looks for new dirs, checks existing repos for changes
+
+	if !shell.Exists(me.forge.Config.ReposPB) {
+		// very likely new user
+		pfile, _ := resources.ReadFile("resources/NEWUSER")
+		log.Info("NEW USER:", string(pfile))
+		s := fmt.Sprintf("Initialize forge?")
+		if !fhelp.QuestionUser(s) {
+			me.sh.GoodExit("no? porque?")
+		}
+	}
+	me.forge.ScanRepoDir() // looks for new dirs, checks existing repos for changes
 	if me.forge.Config.Mode != forgepb.ForgeMode_NORMAL {
 		me.forge.Config.DumpPB()
 	}
diff --git a/resources/NEWUSER b/resources/NEWUSER
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0384af2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/NEWUSER
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+  When building the WIT Private Cloud, a tool was needed
+  to maintain the +50 git repositories quickly between
+  all the distributed machines here.
+  One result of that effort is this tool 'forge'.
+
+  forge can be used to quickly identify changes in
+  a collection of git repos, looking for missing or
+  abandoned files, patches and commits in all repositories.
+
+  Maybe it will be useful to you.
-- 
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