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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:45:49 +0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Simplified GIT usage guide
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On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> wrote:
> The way I did it was to start with the directed acyclic graph of
> commits, explaining how branches fork the graph and merges join
> it. This was presented to people who know subversion, and so they
> immediately became aware that there are other ways to manage source
> code than in a linear r1 r2 r3 r4 r5. I described tags and branch
> heads briefly.
>
> Next up I described the things you'd do with git: add new commits,
> create a branch, merge a branch, rebase, tag, push and fetch and
> showed what that does with the dag of commits.
>
> Finally I showed the actual commands used to perform those actions.
> I didn't get into the object database structure at all (that was
> prepared in case I had extra time).
>

I think this is the right way to start with the DAG. And i do the same.
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