From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johan Herland Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:51:46 +0200 Message-ID: <200904240051.46233.johan@herland.net> References: <20090423201636.GD3056@coredump.intra.peff.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Cc: David Abrahams , Jeff King , Michael Witten , "J. Bruce Fields" To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 24 00:53:50 2009 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 1Lx7nh-0001d6-Vi for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:53:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754517AbZDWWwM (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:52:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753590AbZDWWwM (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:52:12 -0400 Received: from mx.getmail.no ([84.208.15.66]:57573 "EHLO get-mta-out01.get.basefarm.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752713AbZDWWwL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:52:11 -0400 Content-disposition: inline Received: from mx.getmail.no ([10.5.16.4]) by get-mta-out01.get.basefarm.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-0.04 64bit (built Jun 20 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KIK00EF8SUURSA0@get-mta-out01.get.basefarm.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:52:06 +0200 (MEST) Received: from alpha.localnet ([84.215.102.95]) by get-mta-in01.get.basefarm.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7.0-0.04 64bit (built Jun 20 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KIK00C40SUKU4A0@get-mta-in01.get.basefarm.net> for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:52:06 +0200 (MEST) X-PMX-Version: 5.5.3.366731, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.0.366912, Antispam-Data: 2009.4.23.221933 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.2 (Linux/2.6.29-ARCH; KDE/4.2.2; x86_64; ; ) In-reply-to: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thursday 23 April 2009, David Abrahams wrote: > On Apr 23, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > There are some "bottom-up" resources available, but I haven't seen one > > pointed to as "definitive". > I've been pointed at: > > 1. http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists > 2. http://www.newartisans.com/2008/04/git-from-the-bottom-up.html There's also http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~cduan/technical/git/ which I think is a great bottom-up introduction: - not too heavy on the concepts - shows how the concepts relates to common git commands - short enough to be covered in just 1-2 sessions. In fact, I'm loosely planning a presentation on Git (for $dayjob), and I'm probably going to base it on this introduction. Have fun! :) ...Johan -- Johan Herland, www.herland.net