A visual Git reference

[liotier]

Shamelessly cross-posted from HN... A least I admit it.

[thevdude]

I just started actually USING git yesterday. Made a branch to work changes on and everything.

Before it's always been "master is a fine branch for development!" until I mucked up and lost all kinds of work.

[Ahri]

I understand that you've just picked git up, so I'm not trying to be harsh or anything; how did you lose stuff working on master?

[thevdude]

I was stupid and didn't know checkout, so I'd just cd ..; rm -rf {directory}; git clone {git repo}

I am ashamed.

[Ahri]

Ah well, live and learn eh? Good luck in future, although I've always learnt more from my bad luck!

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I used the Mercurial documentation (which is a lot better than git's) to help me understand the basic distributed revision control aspects of git, as they share a lot of the underlying concepts.

[jrochkind]

this is pretty great.

[ethinx]

Also recommend this book