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From: "Karl Hasselström" <kha@treskal.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Russ Brown <pickscrape@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Workflow question
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:51:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070926015146.GA25175@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070926004734.GA22617@segfault.peff.net>

On 2007-09-25 20:47:34 -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> Personally, I think it pays to learn a little about what's going on
> under the hood, and then all of the commands Just Make Sense.
>
> There are several explanations floating around; this is a pretty
> concise one:
>
>   http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/

I agree. Once you understand that history in git is just a DAG of
commits, and that "branches" are just named pointers into this DAG to
help the user remember where to attach new commits, everything starts
to Just Make Sense.

(And FWIW, that article was quite good as I recall.)

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-26  1:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25 16:43 Workflow question Russ Brown
2007-09-25 19:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2007-09-25 19:34   ` Jeff King
2007-09-25 19:50     ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-25 20:20       ` Jeff King
2007-09-25 20:37         ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-09-25 19:42   ` Russ Brown
2007-09-25 20:17     ` Jeff King
2007-09-25 20:56       ` Russ Brown
2007-09-25 21:28         ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-26  0:01           ` Russ Brown
2007-09-26  0:47         ` Jeff King
2007-09-26  1:51           ` Karl Hasselström [this message]
2007-09-26  2:55           ` Russ Brown
2007-09-26  5:29             ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-26 12:42             ` Jeff King
2007-09-25 22:38     ` Andreas Ericsson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-07-24 13:53 workflow question Patrick Doyle
2007-07-24 15:37 ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-24 16:30   ` Patrick Doyle
2007-07-24 16:35     ` Julian Phillips
2007-07-24 20:54       ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-24 20:57     ` Alex Riesen
2007-07-24 21:00       ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-24 21:38         ` Linus Torvalds

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