On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Nick Andrew <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The way I did it was to start with the directed acyclic graph of > commits, explaining how branches fork the graph and merges join > it. This was presented to people who know subversion, and so they > immediately became aware that there are other ways to manage source > code than in a linear r1 r2 r3 r4 r5. I described tags and branch > heads briefly. > > Next up I described the things you'd do with git: add new commits, > create a branch, merge a branch, rebase, tag, push and fetch and > showed what that does with the dag of commits. > > Finally I showed the actual commands used to perform those actions. > I didn't get into the object database structure at all (that was > prepared in case I had extra time). > I think this is the right way to start with the DAG. And i do the same. -- 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