Re: Git Community Book

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

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.