Git Magic
by Ben Lynn · first published 2010
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…next to Ben right now, and he's blushing at all the attention. He says he keeps meaning to do a v2. Anyway, if you really like this, you should consider getting a physical copy: http://www.amazon.com/Git-Magic-Ben-Lynn/dp/1451523343/
on “Git Magic” ↗…was temperamental, prone to network issues (this was in both student accom. -> uni server, and LAN at $job) and did not like users working on the same files. Git took some learning, and it took reading Git Magic <http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/> to go from <https://xkcd.com/1597/> to the friend mentioned in the alt text. SVN still feels like I'm pulling teeth all these years later.
on “Commits are snapshots not diffs (2020)” ↗…is the reference manual excellent in the usual way of Unix reference manuals, but I also know of six tutorial Git books, several of which are free online: the Git User's Manual, the Git Community Book, Git Magic, Pragmatic Version Control Using Git, Pro Git, and Git Internals. As I said in another comment (now deleted), I'm using Subversion on a project for the first time in years, and I constantly find myself…
on “Delightfully Wrong About Git” ↗