git quickstart
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Dec. 13th, 2007 | 12:02 pm
pedro is doing a great job of pimping git, so much so that while trying it out i decided to record a screencast of my first steps with it. it's available as an h.264 movie here (13mb) or you can watch it in youtube.
my main goal was to keep it under 5 minutes, so it is very simple, but armed just with what's there you can start managing your code with git, including having a remote repo and copies and basic branching.
i guess its main selling point is how easy it is to have these things, which are the bread and butter of day-to-day coding but which other version control systems turn into a pita. i totally agree with pedro when he says
i work in a subversion shop, and for about a year now i've been using svk, which is transparent to my cow-orkers and makes life much easier for me. git, however, is several times faster than svk. in the next episode i'll try to get my head around git-svn (so cow-orkers will still like me) and compare it with svk, so stay tuned.
my main goal was to keep it under 5 minutes, so it is very simple, but armed just with what's there you can start managing your code with git, including having a remote repo and copies and basic branching.
i guess its main selling point is how easy it is to have these things, which are the bread and butter of day-to-day coding but which other version control systems turn into a pita. i totally agree with pedro when he says
i refuse to be abused by inferior systems like cvs and subversion no matter the following and success they have. life is just too short.
i work in a subversion shop, and for about a year now i've been using svk, which is transparent to my cow-orkers and makes life much easier for me. git, however, is several times faster than svk. in the next episode i'll try to get my head around git-svn (so cow-orkers will still like me) and compare it with svk, so stay tuned.