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Re: Command-line git Vs IDE+plugin?

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Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 19, 2013, 16:55 UTC
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Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> writes:
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> But also from experience I can tell that without exception everybody whom I 
> teached Git understood it only after being introduced to the basic concepts of 
> Git and how to inspect and operate them on the commandline. Others told me 
> from similar experiences.
>
> Those concepts are:
>
> - hashes
> - content adressable storage
> - blops being referenced by trees being referenced by commits

A great reference I always point people to for exactly those reasons is Sitaram Chamarty's "git concepts simplified":

    http://gitolite.com/gcs/
-Keshav
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Message 10 of 12 in “Command-line git Vs IDE+plugin?”
  1. Matthieu MoyNov 18, 2013
  2. Philippe VaucherNov 18, 2013
  3. Matthieu MoyNov 18, 2013
  4. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 19, 2013
  5. Andreas KreyNov 18, 2013
  6. Thomas KochNov 19, 2013
  7. Junio C HamanoNov 19, 2013
  8. Matthieu MoyNov 19, 2013
  9. Gauthier ÖstervallDec 4, 2013
  10. Keshav KiniNov 19, 2013
  11. Noufal Ibrahim KVNov 19, 2013
  12. Chris PackhamDec 4, 2013

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