On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 07:56 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [….] > Well this doesn't do a lot in the way of substantiating. I do want to be > illuminated. I want to get DVCS! And my understanding is that we need to > branch whenever we plan a new release, and cherry-pick bugfixes from the > mainline, and such. Or (when we have multiple contributors) use one > branch per feature. When I ask you, you neither confirm nor deny that, > but instead go for the vague "well you need to change your mindset". I > hope you see how this is less than useful.
I am not sure how to respond to this. An email is not the place for a tutorial on DVCS, and anyway there are a lot of pre-prepared ones available as books or even on the Web. Moreover there has been a huge amount of material by many people on this on this list already, there is little point in just repeating it. Some simple Web searching reveals: http://sixrevisions.com/resources/git-tutorials-beginners/ http://learn.github.com/p/intro.html http://gitready.com/ http://git.or.cz/course/svn.html http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-git-subversion-1/ http://www.slideshare.net/skoop/git-for-subversion-users-zendcon-2011 Sadly some of the stuff to be found on the Web is total rubbish, but there is some good stuff albeit a little old sometimes. Old here is a problem because Git in 2009 was crap in comparison to Git in 2012. Dead tree materials available from Amazon (US rather than the more expensive UK, obviously :-): http://www.amazon.com/Distributed-Version-Control-Git-ebook/dp/B0067QNR56/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343896115&sr=1-5&keywords=Git http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Guide-Git-Programmers/dp/1934356727/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343896115&sr=1-4&keywords=Git http://www.amazon.com/Version-Control-Git-collaborative-development/dp/1449316387/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343896115&sr=1-3&keywords=Git http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Git-Scott-Chacon/dp/1430218339/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1343896115&sr=1-1&keywords=Git […] > > Sorry Russel but this is just being smug. This conversation goes like this: > > RW: "You need to change everything! Everything!" > > AA: "Well so I understand from other people, step 1 is to branch for > each release. Great." > > RW: "Yes and no! There is step 1 and no step 1! It's a revolution!" > > AA: "OK so what do I need to do?" > > RW: "You're hopelessly anchored in the wrong mindset! You don't > understand! It's the second coming man!" > > AA: "Well this does little in the way of illuminating me." > > RW: "You're dumb and a bully. I'm not talking anymore." > > If you want to help, I'd be in your debt if you were just a tiny bit > more concrete than telling me how hopeless I am. The above is not exactly the best way of appealing to a person's better nature. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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