I found the OReilly book, "Version Control with Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development" (ISBN-10: 0596520123), helpful.
Cheers, Andy ________________________________________ From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore [o...@backspaces.net] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 12:40 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] guide to git using spatial analogies Speaking of git, it turns out my hosting service uses (and prefers, I believe) git over the others (svn, cvs, ..). But I haven't needed to use it but would like to start. What's the best guide out there for newbies? -- Owen On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Giles Bowkett wrote: http://tartley.com/?p=1267 <http://tartley.com/?p=1267>"think of the state of your repository as a point in a high-dimensional ‘code-space’, in which branches are represented as n-dimensional membranes, mapping the spatial loci of successive commits onto the projected manifold of each cloned repository." He presents it as a simplification, although that might be ironic. -- Giles Bowkett http://gilesbowkett.com<http://gilesbowkett.com/> ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org