From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Gilger Subject: Re: Git Screencast ? Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:14:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20071123101426.GA15902@dualtron.vpn.rwth-aachen.de> References: <47453C6D.1080403@op5.se> Reply-To: Johannes Gilger Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Donaghy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 23 11:13:37 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IvVXT-0001x2-9l for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:13:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755125AbXKWKNR (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:13:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755074AbXKWKNQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:13:16 -0500 Received: from avalon.gnuzifer.de ([85.10.199.84]:43269 "EHLO avalon.gnuzifer.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754867AbXKWKNP (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Nov 2007 05:13:15 -0500 Received: from 0-031.vpn.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.240.31]:45675 helo=localhost) by avalon.gnuzifer.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IvVX5-0007fj-SZ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:13:12 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 134.130.240.31 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: heipei@hackvalue.de Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 22/11/07 20:47, Michael Donaghy wrote: > Yes thank you , although a screen cast would still be ideal , the > documentation is very good, > also , what do you think of git-gui ? , I think it is the best one Hi Michael, I think you're trying to hide the complexity of git. The problem with graphical tools is that they hide complexity from the user, which in some cases is only possibly/good if the user has understood the underlying principles already. Also I think that there are many things which can be done much quicker using a command-line than any gui (as all of the people here will agree). Git is not Time-Machine (this thing from Apple). It is also no good idea to try to view git from a svn's point of view, or try to compare commands. It took me a while to get over that and accept that git is different. I was frustated (and still am sometimes) but i finally understood the whole concept. About screencasts: I haven't watched that many screencasts in general, but I can hardly imagine that they are better way of teaching things than reading a manual. Watching someone type in commands, hitting "Pause", then trying it myself doesn't seem more intuitive to me than just reading a manual and typing the commands given in regular intervals. Maybe someone can enlighten me about the use of screencasts (in a command-line environment). Greetings, Jojo -- Johannes Gilger http://hackvalue.de/heipei/ GPG-Key: 0x42F6DE81 GPG-Fingerprint: BB49 F967 775E BB52 3A81 882C 58EE B178 42F6 DE81