Finally getting git

June 4th, 2008
Posted by David Lowenfels
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railsconf

Okay, so I’m finally starting to understand the concept and rewards of git. Scott Chacon’s peepcode book on git was really helpful, and also the slides from his railsconf talk.

I found contemplation of this statement to be quite enlightening:

git != svn + magic

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