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From: nadim khemir <nadim@khemir.net>
To: "git list" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Git Books
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 15:38:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812061538.17700.nadim@khemir.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m34p1hihx4.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

On Saturday 06 December 2008 13.54.06 Jakub Narebski wrote:
> "Scott Chacon" <schacon@gmail.com> writes:
> > I have been talked into helping write a real, paper-based book on Git
> > ...
>
> What I really would like to see in a paper book is _diagrams_, in the
> form of simple graphs (and not UML-like diagrams, of flow-control like
> diagrams).

I was thinking about buying the pdf below. The little I can see looks like 
there are a bunch of diagrams in it.

http://peepcode.com/products/git-internals-pdf

> You can find them in various slides for presentations 
> (among others Junio's talks), and sometimes in blog posts[1], but
> usually only as ASCII-diagrams[2] in git documentation.  (And the
> examples in"The Git Comminity Book" I've seen so far are a bit too
> complicated).

I like doing my ASCII-diagrams with Asciio, unsurprizingly.


                                         ********
                                         * HEAD *
                                         ********
                                             |
                                             v
                           .-----.      .--------.
                           | tag |      | branch |
                           '-----'      '--------'
                              |              |
                              v              v
..........               ..........     ..........
. commit .<--------------. commit .<----. commit .
..........               ..........     ..........
     |                        |              |
     v                        v              v
 .------.                 .------.       .------.
 | tree |--------.--------| tree |       | tree |
 '------'        |        '------'       '------'
     |           v            |              |
     v       .------.         v              v
 .------.    | blob |     .------.       .------.
 | tree |--. '------'  .--| tree |       | blob |
 '------'  |           |  '------'       '------'
           '-----.-----'      |
                 |            v
                 v        .------.
             .------.     | tree |
             | blob |     '------'
             '------'         |
                              v
                          .------.
                          | blob |
                          '------'

cheers, Nadim.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-06 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-06 11:58 Git Books Scott Chacon
2008-12-06 12:09 ` Thomas Adam
2008-12-06 12:27 ` Christian MICHON
2008-12-06 13:39   ` Dilip M
2008-12-06 12:54 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-12-06 14:38   ` nadim khemir [this message]
2008-12-06 12:56 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-12-06 19:45 ` Björn Steinbrink
2008-12-06 23:48   ` Deskin Miller

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