From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Perry E. Metzger" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Good book on Git Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:45:58 -0500 Message-ID: <20141115084558.7bf36715@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> References: <20141114125640.46af036c@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20141114163202.4151b97e@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416059189 11651 80.91.229.3 (15 Nov 2014 13:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Filipp Gunbin Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 15 14:46:22 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XpdgD-0004AL-Pe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:46:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40603 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XpdgD-00008G-B1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:46:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpdfx-00007q-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpdfs-0005sH-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from hacklheber.piermont.com ([166.84.7.14]:49589) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xpdfs-0005sB-0U; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:46:00 -0500 Original-Received: from snark.cb.piermont.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hacklheber.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998F11117; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:45:58 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from jabberwock.cb.piermont.com (jabberwock.cb.piermont.com [10.160.2.107]) by snark.cb.piermont.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6E92DE1AD; Sat, 15 Nov 2014 08:45:58 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.10.1 (GTK+ 2.24.25; x86_64-apple-darwin14.0.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 166.84.7.14 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177179 Archived-At: On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:46:50 +0300 Filipp Gunbin 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