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If you're a developer: Git is faster to work with and more powerful to use from the command line if you take maybe 20 minutes to go through a good tutorial. It

by jarin 16y ago

If you're a developer: Git is faster to work with and more powerful to use from the command line if you take maybe 20 minutes to go through a good tutorial. It took you much longer to learn how to program, and it's worth taking the time to get good at it. If you're a designer, writer, etc: Even though it only takes 20 minutes to learn, if a GUI is what it takes to get you to use version control I guess that is the lesser of two evils :)

hboon 16y ago
And an excellent read to learn about Git is http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm..., from a GitHub cofounder.
aantix 16y ago
I love the cheat gem. sudo gem install cheat Then do : cheat git A great shortcut to all of the common git command sequences.
- mickeyben 16y ago
  sweet didn't know about it, it's very handy with my little Mac OS X alias to open preview from command line : alias preview='groff -Tps > /tmp/tmp.ps && open -a Preview /tmp/tmp.ps' So you can do : cheat git | preview
  - aantix 16y ago
    Nice, very cool alias. Thank-you! P.S. As an added note, there are TONS of cheat sheets out there. Just do a 'cheat sheets' from the command line and you'll get the all listed. Some of the more common ones I would suspect in the HN community are : cheat svn cheat rails cheat named_scope cheat curl cheat blueprint cheat bash cheat mysql cheat ruby
  - kalid 16y ago
    Awesome, thanks for sharing that alias.
Maro 16y ago
That's not true. You can't learn git in 20 minutes or 2 hours, unless you equate learning git to learning to type simple commands like 'git pull' and related. But then you're not really learning git, you're just typing generic VCS commands.
- eru 16y ago
  You can read about the basic architecture and concepts of git in 2 hours. It's not that complicated. You may need more than those 2 hours to really digest and understand everything, and see how it plays out in practise. But after the first 2 hours you should be ready to use git. (Actually you should be using git, because how else are you going to learn?)

by jarin 16y ago

hboon 16y ago

And an excellent read to learn about Git is http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.html http://tom.preston-werner.com/2009/05/19/the-git-parable.htm..., from a GitHub cofounder.

aantix 16y ago

I love the cheat gem. sudo gem install cheat Then do : cheat git A great shortcut to all of the common git command sequences.

mickeyben 16y ago
sweet didn't know about it, it's very handy with my little Mac OS X alias to open preview from command line : alias preview='groff -Tps > /tmp/tmp.ps && open -a Preview /tmp/tmp.ps' So you can do : cheat git | preview
- aantix 16y ago
  Nice, very cool alias. Thank-you! P.S. As an added note, there are TONS of cheat sheets out there. Just do a 'cheat sheets' from the command line and you'll get the all listed. Some of the more common ones I would suspect in the HN community are : cheat svn cheat rails cheat named_scope cheat curl cheat blueprint cheat bash cheat mysql cheat ruby
- kalid 16y ago
  Awesome, thanks for sharing that alias.

Maro 16y ago

That's not true. You can't learn git in 20 minutes or 2 hours, unless you equate learning git to learning to type simple commands like 'git pull' and related. But then you're not really learning git, you're just typing generic VCS commands.

eru 16y ago
You can read about the basic architecture and concepts of git in 2 hours. It's not that complicated. You may need more than those 2 hours to really digest and understand everything, and see how it plays out in practise. But after the first 2 hours you should be ready to use git. (Actually you should be using git, because how else are you going to learn?)