Re: A Visual Git Reference

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Feb 10, 2010, 05:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20100210052057.GE28526@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <ca433831002081134m698f531bwa22f0474db0cdcb@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:34:21PM -0500, Mark Lodato wrote:

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> I put together a "Visual Git Reference" containing visualizations of
> the most common git commands, for people who prefer to see images over
> text.  It is designed as a reference, not a tutorial, so readers need
> to have some amount of experience before the page will become useful.
> 
> URL: http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/
> Git repo: http://github.com/marklodato/visual-git-guide/
> 
> If you have any feedback or suggestions, please let me know!

This looks really awesome, thanks for doing it (though I'll admit I threw up in my mouth a little when I saw you did all of the diagrams as TeX. ;) ).

One of the projects I have wanted to do but never found time for is a "Git Picture Glossary". I was intending to start with much simpler concepts, like how the various object types relate, what a ref is, how a symref differs, what a detached HEAD is, etc. And then move on to "here is what happens when you branch", "here is what happens when you merge", etc. Sort of like "Git for Computer Scientists", but organized as a glossary, with each entry starting off with "to understand this, you first need to understand entries X and Y", with links.

And it seems like what you have done is more or less the same thing, except you skipped all of the really basic entries and went straight to the action-oriented ones.

-Peff