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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Good book on Git
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:45:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141115084558.7bf36715@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2k32wsn2t.fsf@fastmail.fm>

On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:46:50 +0300 Filipp Gunbin
<fgunbin@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 15/11/2014 00:32 +0300, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > The Git manuals that come with Git itself are of course fully
> > free, but they are not always the easiest introduction.
> 
> The git-tutorial pages (1 and 2) provide an easy quickstart help,
> and then usual man pages for various commands are good.
> 

Certainly. However, if one is the sort of person who hacks on emacs,
one is also the sort of person who would probably learn quite a bit
about git's model from understanding the underlying infrastructure.

Until I really got how git works, the reason certain things are easy
and certain things are hard, why the tools do what they do, etc., did
not make sense to me.

I think the online book I pointed at does a good job for a
sophisticated user. It also provides a better overview of how
relatively more sophisticated operations with the tools (like
rebasing and such) are best performed.

Perry
-- 
Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-15 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-14 17:56 Good book on Git Perry E. Metzger
2014-11-14 20:53 ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-14 21:32   ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-11-15 11:46     ` Filipp Gunbin
2014-11-15 13:45       ` Perry E. Metzger [this message]
2014-11-15 14:26         ` Przemysław Wojnowski
2014-11-15 16:17     ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-15 18:38       ` Perry E. Metzger
2014-11-16  3:43         ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-16  7:27           ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-16  7:59             ` Werner LEMBERG
2014-11-16  8:10               ` Tassilo Horn
2014-11-16 19:00             ` Richard Stallman
2014-11-16 18:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-11-16 23:33   ` Gregor Zattler
2014-11-17  2:54   ` Perry E. Metzger

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