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OT: I'd love an interactive "Learn Git" webpage where you could learn to use Git with demo scenarios. Something like "Try Ruby" but for git.

aed 14y ago
Here is exactly what you're looking for: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git
seancron 14y ago
Then you should check out http://try.github.com/ http://try.github.com/
mmanfrin 14y ago
You didn't look very hard then :] There is a course made by the same people who made Try Ruby, on the same site. It's named, unsurprisingly, 'Try Git': http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git They also have a second, more advanced course on the site.
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  :( Wow. I failed pretty hard at looking clearly. Thanks to you and the others for the links.
nhebb 14y ago
Have you looked at: http://try.github.com http://try.github.com and http://gitimmersion.com/ http://gitimmersion.com/
scrrr 14y ago
All you need to do is type "apt-get install git-core" or "brew install git" and you can try 95% of git out locally. Get a free bitbucket or github account and you can do most of the rest. :) OK, perhaps you are on Windows, then i am not sure if it's that simple.
- rhizome 14y ago
  Step 2: write some code that exercises all git features
  - drivebyacct2 14y ago
    That was more what I was looking for. "Oh, you're friend was 20 commits behind and did [some stupid] shit that wiped out all commits and GUI tools aren't helping? Here's how to attack it..." which is where my Git knowledge falls apart very quickly. Regular commiting/pushing/remotes etc are all okay to me, except the bad habits of using "sync" as a commit message when I move from my desktop to my laptop and I don't have wip branch.
- SoftwareMaven 14y ago
  That's not even kind of all it takes. I'd been using git for a couple months on a project on my own with no problems. I felt comfortable with it. Then I got hired at a company using it. I wasn't even remotely prepared for the difference (and for how little I actually knew about git: addressing commits, modifying commits to make them more clear to review, moving branches around, etc). I flailed for several weeks (coworkers were always happy to help, but I prefer to try to swim on my own) before the light bulb really went off (and I'm not new to VCS or DVCS, eitherm by any stretch of the imagination). I don't think you can really learn git until you are working with a group of people, because its not until that point that its strengths and peculiarities really show up. Especially since the UI is so cryptic. Fwiw, I was a big mercurial fan pre-hiring. I'm now very happy that BitBucket has a git interface (I prefer BB to Github for closed-source, personal projects) as, unless there is a requirement that history not be changed in the repo, I'll be using git moving forward.
pwenzel 14y ago
Check out the Peepcode screencast on Git: https://peepcode.com/products/git https://peepcode.com/products/git Peepcode screencasts are worth every penny.

aed 14y ago

Here is exactly what you're looking for: http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git

seancron 14y ago

Then you should check out http://try.github.com/ http://try.github.com/

mmanfrin 14y ago

You didn't look very hard then :] There is a course made by the same people who made Try Ruby, on the same site. It's named, unsurprisingly, 'Try Git': http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git They also have a second, more advanced course on the site.

drivebyacct2 14y ago
:( Wow. I failed pretty hard at looking clearly. Thanks to you and the others for the links.

nhebb 14y ago

Have you looked at: http://try.github.com http://try.github.com and http://gitimmersion.com/ http://gitimmersion.com/

scrrr 14y ago

All you need to do is type "apt-get install git-core" or "brew install git" and you can try 95% of git out locally. Get a free bitbucket or github account and you can do most of the rest. :) OK, perhaps you are on Windows, then i am not sure if it's that simple.

rhizome 14y ago
Step 2: write some code that exercises all git features
- drivebyacct2 14y ago
  That was more what I was looking for. "Oh, you're friend was 20 commits behind and did [some stupid] shit that wiped out all commits and GUI tools aren't helping? Here's how to attack it..." which is where my Git knowledge falls apart very quickly. Regular commiting/pushing/remotes etc are all okay to me, except the bad habits of using "sync" as a commit message when I move from my desktop to my laptop and I don't have wip branch.
SoftwareMaven 14y ago
That's not even kind of all it takes. I'd been using git for a couple months on a project on my own with no problems. I felt comfortable with it. Then I got hired at a company using it. I wasn't even remotely prepared for the difference (and for how little I actually knew about git: addressing commits, modifying commits to make them more clear to review, moving branches around, etc). I flailed for several weeks (coworkers were always happy to help, but I prefer to try to swim on my own) before the light bulb really went off (and I'm not new to VCS or DVCS, eitherm by any stretch of the imagination). I don't think you can really learn git until you are working with a group of people, because its not until that point that its strengths and peculiarities really show up. Especially since the UI is so cryptic. Fwiw, I was a big mercurial fan pre-hiring. I'm now very happy that BitBucket has a git interface (I prefer BB to Github for closed-source, personal projects) as, unless there is a requirement that history not be changed in the repo, I'll be using git moving forward.

pwenzel 14y ago

Check out the Peepcode screencast on Git: https://peepcode.com/products/git https://peepcode.com/products/git Peepcode screencasts are worth every penny.