From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Donaghy Subject: Re: Git Screencast ? Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:47:07 -0500 Message-ID: References: <47453C6D.1080403@op5.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 23 02:47:54 2007 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 1IvNe4-0005Y8-Nk for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:47:53 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752408AbXKWBrf (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:47:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752346AbXKWBrf (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:47:35 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:58711 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752107AbXKWBre (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2007 20:47:34 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IvNdY-0006wO-La for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:47:20 +0000 Received: from dt050nf4.tampabay.res.rr.com ([24.92.13.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:47:20 +0000 Received: from mike by dt050nf4.tampabay.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2007 01:47:20 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dt050nf4.tampabay.res.rr.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: <47453C6D.1080403@op5.se> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Michael Donaghy wrote: >> I am a new user of git and SCMs in general , I have learned a lot from >> the docs , irc and just using it , but there are just some concepts >> that hare hard to grasp , I am a very visual persion (probably like a >> lot of you :) ) , is there a screencast of git somewhere (for free) >> that can demonstrate some of the advanced features of git... >> (Also...I have seen both Randal (Schwartz) and Linus' (you better know >> his last name) presentations at google on git , in which they explain >> the ideas behind git more than the actual usage, >> > > The thing that helped me and my co-workers the most was running through > the steps of the tutorial, but stopping every time something wasn't > absolutely crystal clear and doing gitk or qgit (I prefer qgit, since > it seems to display things more consistently and also loads faster). > > That primarily helped us get branches under control. We came from a > CVS world and never had any branches, as none of us had time or energy > to figure out how to merge them back together using those crippled scm's. > > I noticed Johannes Gilger already sent you the link to git-for-scientists > thing which is also a really good aid, especially when you've read the > tutorial and some of the less tech-oriented docs. > Yes thank you , although a screen cast would still be ideal , the documentation is very good, also , what do you think of git-gui ? , I think it is the best one