Gittin' Jiggy Wit It

I've recently become interested fascinated by the technology behind Git.

It has been a while since i switched over to Git – nine months to be approximate. For about seven-and-a-half of them, I treated Git as a SVN clone; code → commit → push → repeat, or CCPR for short. Just keeping the source code alive. Then something happened. I did a branch. Then I did a second one. I kept two separate branches for a while, and then merged them together (although I now know that I should've rebased instead).

Since then, I've begun to really look at what Git can do. The single most teaching experience for me was when I held a one-hour Git intro-workshop at work. Next I was discussing on converting some of our SVN repositories into Git. Next thing I know, I was installing gitosis on a virtual machine.

Today, I bought a Git Internals PDF for a reasonable $9 USD. Although I haven't had the opportunity to read the PDF itself, the accompanying screencasts (actually the same, and more, as the ones I linked to above) seemed well done and informative, although a bit on the high-paced side. But I'll be reading the PDF with gusto, as soon as I get the opportunity. I also have an article called Packaging Software Using Git in my to-read list.

There's simply too much interesting stuff to learn...