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.
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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 ============================================================ 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 |
This one looked interesting:
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I found the OReilly book, "Version Control with Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development" (ISBN-10: 0596520123), helpful.
Cheers, Andy ________________________________________ From: [hidden email] [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore [[hidden email]] 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 |
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Hey, better yet, its available in Italian! Yeehaa! I need more study material after the last trip. A List Apart has always been not only pertinent , but literate. And now in italian!
-- Owen On Dec 16, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: This one looked interesting: ============================================================ 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 |
I don't speak Italian, but that does sound like a classy option. I like PeepCode:
GitHub has some good guides (http://help.github.com/) but the big thing I used the most getting started was probably the cheat sheet: http://cheat.errtheblog.com/s/git
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