Git can feel extremely unnatural to those who came from Bazaar. Only after a lot of advice from friends, the right tools and a few months of intensive usage did I feel confident enough to use it without fear. Many are probably in the same boat as me though, so I took a couple of hours to clean up my personal notes and make a proper “crash course” tutorial for Git in the Pitivi context. I have also made a nice video on how to use interactive rebase, if you’re interested.
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The “git-new-workdir” utility that ships in git’s “contrib/workdir” directory might be worth special mention. It allows you to have multiple working directories for a git repo instead of just one, which is great if you’re frequently switching between branches. I typically keep one working directory per branch: one for “master”, another for the latest stable branch, and additional ones for any feature branches I’m hacking on.
Coming from a CVS/Subversion background, git and it’s one-branch-at-a-time model felt very confining to me until I discovered that tool.
Thanks !
Coming mostly from svn/bazaar-ng, I feel a little lost sometimes when working with git.
bazaar is completely broken
luckily only canonical uses it
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@mark: I still find bazaar to be a nice tool that is elegant in its simplicity. I do think many people outside Canonical like it, although they’re certainly not a majority.
I can’t say that my mind hasn’t been corrupt by the absolute power of “git rebase -i” in recent times, though.
When I read “feel confident enough to use it without fear” I immediately thought of this:
“Being aware of git reflog will make you feel that much more comfortable when running commands that alter history. Just remember, as long as you’ve committed it, it’s still there!”
— http://gitfu.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/git-reflog-no-commits-left-behind/
Yeah, I know of the existence of git reflog (actually used it for the first time yesterday). Still, that’s for when you already understand git 🙂