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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:30:56 -0500
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 17:51, Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> wrote:
> 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

I really don't understand this mentality. Concepts are the only things
that are important. From concepts falls all else.