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There's also a similar site for Mercurial users: http://hgtip.com/ http://hgtip.com/ Disclosure: I made hgtip.

by stevelosh 17y ago

naish 17y ago
And Hg Init by Joel Spolsky: http://hginit.com/index.html http://hginit.com/index.html
- Estragon 17y ago
  It was from reading hginit that I really "got" DVCS. I'd used git a bit before that, but it'd never really clicked before (tried to store everything in one huge repository, the same mistake Joel describes at the start of hginit.) Now I'm pretty much committed to mercurial, largely as a result of that tutorial.
stevelosh 17y ago
Another small, self-indulgent note: I'm looking for more translators for hgtip.com. So far Yuja Nishihara has done fantastic work translating the site to Japanese. If you're a native speaker of something other than English and want to help out let me know! I'm sjl on BitBucket/GitHub, or you can email me at steve@stevelosh.com I'm also looking for advice on how to translate the screencast-format tips like this: http://ja.hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2010-02-11-merging-mq-patches-with-rebase/ http://ja.hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2010-02-11-merging-mq-patc... One idea I had was to create a display:none-by-default "transcription" div element below the embedded video which would contain the transcription of the screencast. There could be a "view transcription" link that would show that div. This would make it searchable and translators could translate that content into their languages. This doesn't really solve the problem of translating the actual voice in the screencast though. Screenr (the site I used to make the screencast) doesn't support subtitles, but YouTube does. Is it possible to "fork" videos on YouTube and add different subtitles? I haven't found a way, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. I'd really like to make the "screencast" format of tips work. Personally I'm very much a visual learner, so seeing a quick screencast of something helps me a lot. However, if it's going to be impossible to create a decent translation without a lot of work I'll abandon the idea (for now).

There's also a similar site for Mercurial users: http://hgtip.com/ http://hgtip.com/ Disclosure: I made hgtip.

naish 17y ago

And Hg Init by Joel Spolsky: http://hginit.com/index.html http://hginit.com/index.html

Estragon 17y ago
It was from reading hginit that I really "got" DVCS. I'd used git a bit before that, but it'd never really clicked before (tried to store everything in one huge repository, the same mistake Joel describes at the start of hginit.) Now I'm pretty much committed to mercurial, largely as a result of that tutorial.

stevelosh 17y ago

Another small, self-indulgent note: I'm looking for more translators for hgtip.com. So far Yuja Nishihara has done fantastic work translating the site to Japanese. If you're a native speaker of something other than English and want to help out let me know! I'm sjl on BitBucket/GitHub, or you can email me at steve@stevelosh.com I'm also looking for advice on how to translate the screencast-format tips like this: http://ja.hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2010-02-11-merging-mq-patches-with-rebase/ http://ja.hgtip.com/tips/advanced/2010-02-11-merging-mq-patc... One idea I had was to create a display:none-by-default "transcription" div element below the embedded video which would contain the transcription of the screencast. There could be a "view transcription" link that would show that div. This would make it searchable and translators could translate that content into their languages. This doesn't really solve the problem of translating the actual voice in the screencast though. Screenr (the site I used to make the screencast) doesn't support subtitles, but YouTube does. Is it possible to "fork" videos on YouTube and add different subtitles? I haven't found a way, but maybe I'm just not looking in the right place. I'd really like to make the "screencast" format of tips work. Personally I'm very much a visual learner, so seeing a quick screencast of something helps me a lot. However, if it's going to be impossible to create a decent translation without a lot of work I'll abandon the idea (for now).