From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:47:59 GMT Subject: Re: Git Community Book Message-ID: <7v1w1cb940.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Daniel Barkalow 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.