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I like that Joel decides to say "OK, forget about Subversion or whatever you know about source control in general. I'm going to teach you about the DVCS way fro
by sumeeta 17y ago
I like that Joel decides to say "OK, forget about Subversion or whatever you know about source control in general. I'm going to teach you about the DVCS way from the ground up." It's great that he treats this guide like an introduction to the concept of version control, but I think you really need experience with VCS before you can understand Hg Init.
Is there an easy way to educate older and/or less technical IT professionals about source control? I haven't been able to do it myself, and I wish this was it.
- weaksauce 17y agoThis looks good from an overall why you should learn it point of view and also to help you with the lingo that you should know: http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/ http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-versio... For IT people you should have your /etc/* files under revision control to track any changes and easily roll back changes that break your system. I actually think there are some tools that are specifically for this purpose and not the general purpose SVN/git/hg variety but I cannot think of them off the top of my head.
- carey 17y agoYou're probably thinking of etckeeper: http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/ http://joey.kitenet.net/code/etckeeper/