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Getting started with Git

Posted Aug 16, 2007 11:26 UTC (Thu) by daenzer (✭ supporter ✭, #7050)
Parent article: Getting started with Git

I'm not convinced of the usefulness of tutorials for CVS or SVN etc.
users. Git is just fundamentally different, and trying to treat it like
something else can be confusing rather than helpful.

Just a warning for people coming from other SCMs, not criticism of this
excellent article.

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Git fundamentally different

Posted Aug 16, 2007 18:34 UTC (Thu) by scripter (subscriber, #2654) [Link]

The workflow of Git is completely different than when using centralized systems like Subversion. I've written up my initial impressions of Git: Git underwhelms.

Git fundamentally different

Posted Aug 23, 2007 8:36 UTC (Thu) by arcticwolf (guest, #8341) [Link]

Wait, are you serious? I checked out your post, hoping to get a list of actual issues and shortcomings with git, and now you seriously want to tell me that your most urgent complaints about git and git-svn, respectively, are "noone else in my company uses it" (boohoo) and "I have to get used to a new tool" (again, boohoo)? As the kids way say these days - "I LOL'ed".

Seriously, stop whining.