Andrew Sayers venit, vidit, dixit 22.05.2010 12:52: > Hi Daniele, > > I'm a developer getting towards the end of introducing my company to > Git. Here are some thoughts based on the (mis)steps I took. > > > I found that advocating specific steps wasn't that effective - I just > came across as being pushy and hard to work with. It was more effective > to politely show off what I could do with git-svn, and let people get > jealous enough to work the "how" out for themselves. Here are some > examples: > > I would quietly bisect a hard-to-fix bug, then say "if it's any help, > git tells me it was introduced by so-and-so in revision N". Sometimes > it was no help, but sometimes it was enough to provoke the appropriate > "aha!" for the bug. > > I would nonchalantly use as many git features as I could while showing > people my work. So "here's the diff for my work... grr whitespace ... > hang on I'll add `-w`... anyway, these are the REAL differences...". The > fact it was all in glorious technicolour went without mention. > > When we had a big merge that nobody was looking forward to, I said "let > me do it! It'll give me a chance to practice my git-fu". > > When I used svn on somebody else's command-line, I'd blame the mistakes > I made on being spoiled by Git. So "I'll just do an `svn log`... argh > no! Control-C! Control-C! Right, `svn log | less`... my bad, git > pipes to less automatically." > > > Over the course of a few months, people became convinced that Git was > something that makes you more productive. Our lead developer had a go > with git-svn for a while, before our boss decided we should all make the > switch. > > I tried to make git-svn as painless as possible with some svn-like > aliases and a cheatsheet, which I'd be happy to upload if the list could > suggest a good place to put a PDF and some text. Feel free to contribute to the Git Wiki maybe at https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitDocumentation in the "User contributed Documentation" section. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html