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Git from the Bottom Up (2008)
- bombcar 5y agoThe realization that git is more akin to ZFS snapshots and that the space saving is done separately was eye-opening.
- jimmyed 5y agoThe author, J Wiegley is the maintainer of Emacs too. He's a heavyweight.
- ZephyrP 5y agoExtremely knowledgeable and warm person on top of that. He's the genuine next level.
- zdw 5y agoAnd also the author of the ledger CLI accounting tool: https://www.ledger-cli.org https://www.ledger-cli.org
- mlang23 5y agoIf I am not mistaken, Emacs maintainance has been passed on to Lars (the author of Gnus). In any case, John is a great person involved in a lot of interesting free software. He conceived ledger (a cli double-accounting tool) and wrote a lot of emacs packages, amongst other things. Big Up to johnw!
- grzm 5y ago(2017) ? Not sure how to date this, but the latest commit for the source of the book is from 2017. https://github.com/jwiegley/git-from-the-bottom-up/commit/76bd9f2353b0893151bcd8239ddc014289589780 https://github.com/jwiegley/git-from-the-bottom-up/commit/76...
- platz 5y agoI bookmarked the public TOC url 6 years ago
- bnj 5y agoGot interested in the static site generator so I followed the “bitbooks” link in the footer, it looks like the domain has been hijacked
- divbzero 5y agoI reached the same hijacked domain. The original bitbooks.cc is archived on GitHub [1]. It looks like Bitbinder [2] was the static site builder which in turn used Franklin [3] to generate the online book. [1]: https://github.com/bitbooks/bitbooks.cc https://github.com/bitbooks/bitbooks.cc [2]: https://github.com/bitbooks/bitbinder https://github.com/bitbooks/bitbinder [3]: https://github.com/bryanbraun/franklin https://github.com/bryanbraun/franklin
- kuharich 5y agoPast comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10199391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10199391
- janvdberg 5y agoVideo-wise there is hardly a better explainer on git than this one: 'Lecture 6: Version Control (git) (2020)' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sjqTHE0zok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sjqTHE0zok
- dang 5y agoIf curious, past threads: Git from the Bottom Up (2009) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10199391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10199391 - Sept 2015 (25 comments) Git from the Bottom-Up by John Wiegley [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2059614 - Jan 2011 (8 comments) Git from the bottom up [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1099229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1099229 - Feb 2010 (18 comments) Git==Blobs+Trees+Commits+nothingelse Learn Git from the bottom up - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064231 - Jan 2010 (2 comments)
- globular-toast 5y agoSad that this always get so little attention. This is the real way to understand git.
- niklasmerz 5y agoExactly what I need for my own small Git workshop
- TechBro8615 5y agoBack at my first internship circa 2011 or so, we had a developer advocate from GitHub come to the company for a workshop day. He was great. He taught git just like this, and by the end of the day I had a solid understanding of the tool. That background knowledge has remained extremely useful.