From: Christian MICHON Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:39:44 GMT Subject: Re: Hello All and Seeking Information Message-ID: <46d6db660811240839n76d96887w7c497851f04c8658@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Tim Visher wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm new to the list so I figured I'd introduce myself instead of just > wall-flowering... "Hello"... :) > > Anyway, I really like a lot of the concepts found in Git and the > reported power and flexibility of it are very intriguing. However, > there are some issues that I can't wrap my head around, such as how > you can guarantee that all developers are working on the same > code-base without a central repo. I would classify a lot of my issues > as paradigm rather than technically related. I understand a lot of > Git's underpinnings and the basic usage of it, I just can't wrap my > head around the higher-order parts of it. > > I've done some Googling and I can't find a good 'Introduction to > Distributed SCM Concepts for Centralized SCM Developers' article yet. > Ideally, this would be an article all about the high-level thought > processes that go into utilizing Distributed SCM in a team environment > where having a single canonical representation of your project that > all developers are working off of is important. > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/LinusTalk200705Transcript but the video is obviously more fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 -- Christian -- http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !