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[Shlomi Fish]

On Monday 01 June 2009 23:21:39 Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > This is just a tiny example. I also had many problems with "git checkout"
> > and "git diff" no longer showing the diff for files that were "git
> > add"'ed and other aspects.
> >
> > Maybe I should read a good git tutorial or a document explaining its
> > architecture, but so far I found git hard-to-understand, poorly
> > documented, and counter-intuitive. I didn't have such problems with
> > Subversion, which always worked as I expected and was properly documented
> > and intuitive.
>
> You're right on all counts, but the overriding factor is that there's lots
> of things that SVN makes painful or near impossible (merging branches,
> obliterating changes, changing history, cherry-picking changes, branch
> security, mirroring...) that git makes possible.  It's worth slogging
> through the first month of utter conceptual confusion.
>
> To that end, I found these immensely helpful:
>
[SNIP]

Thanks for the pointers. I'll take a look.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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