I am very curious about git. I understand roughly how it works and it can be used, but since there are ppl here using it massively, would you kindly write a short 'git/git bundle for dummies' ? What I'd like is an example of how concretely you use it every day and what it gives you. My needs are basic, I have many joint projects (=joint papers) with several people scattered around the world, and I would like to understand if it is worth learning to use it or not to manage my collaborations.
Piero
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Piero D'Ancona pierodancona@gmail.com wrote:
I am very curious about git. I understand roughly how it works and it can be used, but since there are ppl here using it massively, would you kindly write a short 'git/git bundle for dummies' ? What I'd like is an example of how concretely you use it every day and what it gives you. My needs are basic, I have many joint projects (=joint papers) with several people scattered around the world, and I would like to understand if it is worth learning to use it or not to manage my collaborations.
http://whygitisbetterthanx.com/ http://git-scm.com/documentation
Cheers, Chris
Theres a new (to me) quite nice minimal intro here http://www.spheredev.org/wiki/Git_for_the_lazy
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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.
On 17 Aug 2010, at 13:58, Rick DeNatale wrote:
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's good. I attended a presentation of his recently and the slides are also very good, however I am not sure if they are openly available. [The slides are not, at present, on http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ye2010/wiki?node=UploadedSlides but should appear there when Scott is back in one place assuming he is OK with the slides being made available...]
He wrote a book called Pro Git and although it's a printed book sold by Apress, the entire book is readable online
That book is good.
Unfortunately, and it pains me to say it, the O'Reilly one is not. [But then O'Reilly no longer hold the paramount tech book crown like they did a number of years back]
Other resources http://gitref.org/ - another Scott production http://progit.org/ - Pro Git website http://git-scm.com/ http://www.gitready.com/
Some of these were culled from http://help.github.com/
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Hello,
usually i'am writing in german. No i wrote some texts in english and want to change the language of the spellchecking, but i didn't found the way to do it.
Does anyone now, how this works?
thank you and good buy
Malte
On 17 Aug 2010, at 17:15, Malte Christian wrote:
usually i'am writing in german. No i wrote some texts in english and want to change the language of the spellchecking, but i didn't found the way to do it.
Does anyone now, how this works?
Use the panel brought up via the Edit → Spelling → Show Spelling and Grammar menu item (or key equivalent ⌘:).
P.S. Don’t hit reply on an existing email when you want to start a new thread, it breaks proper threading since your letter contains ‘in reply to’ headers!
On 17 Aug 2010, at 18:52, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 17 Aug 2010, at 17:15, Malte Christian wrote:
usually i'am writing in german. No i wrote some texts in english and want to change the language of the spellchecking, but i didn't found the way to do it.
Does anyone now, how this works?
Use the panel brought up via the Edit → Spelling → Show Spelling and Grammar menu item (or key equivalent ⌘:).
Speaking of that, I've had an unexpected behaviour (not using the word "bug" :) that I never really understood.
If I set the language to be Automatic by Language, and I spell using British English spelling, all British English spelled words get underlined. That's even if I disabled other variants of English from the System Preferences (Language & Text → Text → Spelling → Setup..., I uncheck everything but British English). For the words that get underlined, the spell checker doesn't suggest any correction though (by right click or by calling a Check Spelling command), which tends to show those words are recognised as valid even if they're underlined. If I change the language from Automatic by Language to British English, everything turns normal. This behaviour happens only with TextMate as far as I know.
Any idea why?
Thanks,
enas
On 17 Aug 2010, at 22:49, enas wrote:
[...] If I set the language to be Automatic by Language [...] all British English spelled words get underlined.
[...] This behaviour happens only with TextMate as far as I know.
Basically all but TextMate uses NSTextView (written by Apple), that’s why it’s always the odd one out when Apple introduce new text-related functionality (like this automatic by language, which I think debuted in Leopard).
I have yet to look into how exactly this feature works, but I do have an open ticket about it.
I really, really like this tutorial http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/ it's named "Understanding Git Conceptually", which is exactly what it is. I had a problem with the other tutorials that I didn't understand what exactly are they talking about.
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Nigel Metheringham nigel.metheringham@dev.intechnology.co.uk wrote:
On 17 Aug 2010, at 13:58, Rick DeNatale wrote:
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's good. I attended a presentation of his recently and the slides are also very good, however I am not sure if they are openly available. [The slides are not, at present, on http://conferences.yapceurope.org/ye2010/wiki?node=UploadedSlides but should appear there when Scott is back in one place assuming he is OK with the slides being made available...]
He wrote a book called Pro Git and although it's a printed book sold by Apress, the entire book is readable online
That book is good.
Unfortunately, and it pains me to say it, the O'Reilly one is not. [But then O'Reilly no longer hold the paramount tech book crown like they did a number of years back]
Other resources http://gitref.org/ - another Scott production http://progit.org/ - Pro Git website http://git-scm.com/ http://www.gitready.com/
Some of these were culled from http://help.github.com/
Nigel.
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