From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keshav Kini Subject: Re: Command-line git Vs IDE+plugin? Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:55:10 -0600 Message-ID: <871u2cpc0h.fsf@gmail.com> References: <201311191336.31000.thomas@koch.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Nov 19 17:55:37 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VioaK-0006nK-Vi for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:55:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753223Ab3KSQz3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:55:29 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55007 "EHLO plane.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752845Ab3KSQz2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Nov 2013 11:55:28 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VioaD-0006jH-Si for git@vger.kernel.org; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:55:25 +0100 Received: from cpe-72-179-6-119.austin.res.rr.com ([72.179.6.119]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:55:25 +0100 Received: from keshav.kini by cpe-72-179-6-119.austin.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:55:25 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe-72-179-6-119.austin.res.rr.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZRT9895vKTB2LSvBSOqkEWb6av4= Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Thomas Koch writes: > But also from experience I can tell that without exception everybody whom I > teached Git understood it only after being introduced to the basic concepts of > Git and how to inspect and operate them on the commandline. Others told me > from similar experiences. > > Those concepts are: > > - hashes > - content adressable storage > - blops being referenced by trees being referenced by commits A great reference I always point people to for exactly those reasons is Sitaram Chamarty's "git concepts simplified": http://gitolite.com/gcs/ -Keshav