On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Piero D'Ancona pierodancona@gmail.com wrote:
Nigel Metheringham <nigel.metheringham@...> writes:
Thanks Nigel and Chris!
After dipping your toes in introductory material about git, I can't recommend anything written by Scott Chacon enough.
Scott works for github and seems to serve as their main git 'educator'
He wrote a book called Pro Git and although it's a printed book sold by Apress, the entire book is readable online
And if you look at recent blog articles on that site, you can find versions for the Kindle, iPad etc.
Some of the introductory expositions of git are too close to presenting git as too much like things like SVN. While there are similarities, if you continue to think of git (or other distributed VCSes) as a different implementation of a more traditional VCS you'll run into some head scratching mysteries when you really start to use it.
OTOH, I've found git in general to produce less head scratching mysteries in it's use than SVN ever did.