Re: Git Community Book

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 29, 2008, 22:47 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1w1cb940.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0807291716460.19665@iabervon.org>

Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@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.