Re: [B2-devel] git?

[Robert M. <mr...@gm...>]

I would recommend this to anyone wanting to understand what Git actually does:

ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
  "Git From the Bottom Up" by John Wiegley (PDF file), December 2009

He explains blobs, the index (aka "staging area"), working tree,
rebasing, etc. with lots of details like identifying a commit by an
unambiguous initial substring of its SHA1 hash.

There are a bunch of good illustrations showing the structure of the
repository and working tree databases.

Alex wrote:
> There are some examples of git usage and a flow chart I threw together a
> while back if anyone wants a *quick* crash course on GIT:
>
> https://www.haiku-os.org/guides/building/get-source-git
>
> Tips:
>    * Always git pull --rebase before you commit.
>      This will mimic a central repo better and avoid a mass amount of merges

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