Subject: Re: Git Community Book
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.version-control.git
Date: 2008-07-29 22:47:59 GMT (18 weeks, 1 day, 5 hours and 5 minutes ago)
Daniel Barkalow <barkalow <at> iabervon.org> writes:
> In particular, I think it's really useful to show a commit graph with
> branching and merging, and introduce refs as movable pointers to commits
> in the graph, and local branches as refs that you move and tracking refs
> as refs that copy values in other repositories.
I'd very strongly second this. If somebody is really into screencasts
(and especially from the Ruby circle, I would guess), this may be worth
a look:
http://excess.org/article/2008/07/ogre-git-tutorial/
I saw a couple of technical inaccuracies in the presentation (I do not
expect any presentation or screencast to be perfect; I've never seen one
without any technical error anyway, perhaps other than my own at OLS a few
years ago), but otherwise it was very well done. Espcially the part that
builds the commit ancestry chains I was very happy to see it taught like
so.