From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Christian MICHON" Subject: Re: Hello All and Seeking Information Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:39:44 +0100 Message-ID: <46d6db660811240839n76d96887w7c497851f04c8658@mail.gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Tim Visher" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 24 17:41:12 2008 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 1L4eUm-0000Ft-I0 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:41:09 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753532AbYKXQjr (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:39:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753502AbYKXQjr (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:39:47 -0500 Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com ([216.239.58.189]:28769 "EHLO gv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753402AbYKXQjq (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:39:46 -0500 Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id e6so353310gvc.37 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:39:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=2ELXfYv23va0yYo02NqmVhUATgB9kehycrD6hm0y74s=; b=ogrBYarZDrF9osAGgJ2mJkQH6XuYhqAyM3cBLbM6wXmsKLGzcURVcK9KrNDk9CM8Te PvhUEvbZU9UQ85DKo3ZzM+dDxygMfn2ULWQPlelHzCY42uQRv6pUBGt6o4chpi2SLvCj oPHR+TKGdp4W8tYbtZTLqlNIX6y71I2+daKWU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=BVq/pTayGrucX5oXfffdQCb9DHHQ4b4uJVYFzv7F4k7u7Z/GBrwSCO+R2JEogVwANV wWjGWDAHX8jgKs0RPR4AXtxB8eHiJcUMKRqio3E9wKcw/YeigKYSjZNCHRAWiA1dp0wB fbK2x2z7TKw/BHahZVZx/OuyjZuvSAdly+Hq4= Received: by 10.103.245.18 with SMTP id x18mr1140763mur.62.1227544784223; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:39:44 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.189.18 with HTTP; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:39:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Tim Visher wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm new to the list so I figured I'd introduce myself instead of just > wall-flowering... "Hello"... :) > > Anyway, I really like a lot of the concepts found in Git and the > reported power and flexibility of it are very intriguing. However, > there are some issues that I can't wrap my head around, such as how > you can guarantee that all developers are working on the same > code-base without a central repo. I would classify a lot of my issues > as paradigm rather than technically related. I understand a lot of > Git's underpinnings and the basic usage of it, I just can't wrap my > head around the higher-order parts of it. > > I've done some Googling and I can't find a good 'Introduction to > Distributed SCM Concepts for Centralized SCM Developers' article yet. > Ideally, this would be an article all about the high-level thought > processes that go into utilizing Distributed SCM in a team environment > where having a single canonical representation of your project that > all developers are working off of is important. > http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/LinusTalk200705Transcript but the video is obviously more fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 -- Christian -- http://detaolb.sourceforge.net/, a linux distribution for Qemu with Git inside !