On 2008-07-22 11:15:40 +0100, Pedro Melo wrote: > I also point them to Tommi Virtanen "Git for Computer > Scientists":http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/. > It was that article that made it all "click" for me regarding git. Me too. I've found that starting off by explaining how git represents history with blobs, trees, and commits (no need to mention tags or other objects just yet), and how branches and merging just fall out naturally from the commit DAG, is a good way to get people to appreciate just how simple git's data model is. After that five-minute introduction, they have a reasonable mental model of what the git commands operate on -- then they just need to fill in the details, like what commands there are and how they work. (I've never taught git to anyone who didn't already know what a DAG or a cryptographic hash is -- presumably, that would make it take more than five minutes.) -- Karl Hasselström, kha@xxxxxxxxxxx www.treskal.com/kalle -- 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
