From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: Questions about branches in git Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:03:36 -0800 Message-ID: <7vtyu5k3xz.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <69b754db1001281044y39e52f77hcc8f83144776c78f@mail.gmail.com> <69b754db1001281317o69f8c3f9y412a8524407bacbf@mail.gmail.com> <4B6201BC.9030800@web.de> <69b754db1001281338l58eb4b84t5a5725de294b6cc5@mail.gmail.com> <20100129090345.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mike Linck , Jens Lehmann , Michael Witten , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nanako Shiraishi X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jan 29 04:04:00 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nah9M-0002Ff-1d for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:04:00 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756539Ab0A2DDx (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:03:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755182Ab0A2DDw (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:03:52 -0500 Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:36437 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752649Ab0A2DDw (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:03:52 -0500 Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87F9595798; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:03:49 -0500 (EST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=GiXxib+kDQJD683CCmcTJO1eBuU=; b=fIFITG lRQtwZh8iLjiG3jlhRHaXyO/jiaUoAGmZa2XmEb7Pb8HARuIxrqVpqPdqIsBao4G H1iGM01VaOe4mWZCo7QpkoeZwbZZyD3invdGFo73b2Aiy5RRp68cxTZaBI3z9I07 RweCUff6SCwrzZg6dCAgtoisXM2sHBIJbX42g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=to:cc:subject :references:from:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=q6xJ63Y+eRYlJCg9swTEj6LQ3bt39GbU G5sMSqW/m4cHoJ+gkgbY+dasB8e6B1B/nltcb7GxEnchRdlD9gD4t4HljKuy7fZP b33sjgx6r5nB/diDRWa3PKSQ60EQpxSjoVObJR9OCioWBG/dXqXeSzjIvx7j8QpE SE//Glbpd80= Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B0A295795; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:03:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [68.225.240.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3662795794; Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:03:38 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20100129090345.6117@nanako3.lavabit.com> (Nanako Shiraishi's message of "Fri\, 29 Jan 2010 09\:03\:45 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: E9334CFE-0C82-11DF-A7B3-6AF7ED7EF46B-77302942!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Nanako Shiraishi writes: > Quoting Mike Linck > >> Could anyone point me to a good book that actually describes the style >> of code management that git was intended to support? > > You may want to add the result of googling > > "Fun with" site:gitster.livejournal.com > > to the list of Git documents you read. "Fork from the oldest branch" is > one of the techniques Junio teaches often and many of his other > techiniques are built upon. > ... It is a useful substitute until his book gets translated to English > for people who don't read Japanese. Quite honestly, I don't think my blog articles are all that good; certainly not as good as the book, as I don't draw pictures. For this particular topic, I would instead recommend: http://nvie.com/archives/323 (A successful Git branching model) What it teaches isn't anything earth-shattering (it's the same old "how to use topic branch effectively" and I don't necessarily agree with the choice of fork points of topic branches depicted in the article), but people seem to like its graphics very much and it is scoring quite high in delicio.us.