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Terrific introduction to git

By moshe weitzman - Posted on 25 April 2009

I just finished watching the peepcode screencast on git. It costs US$9, and is worth many times that price. I'm typically not a fan of the screencast format. I find that I can learn the same information faster in text form. Give me a blog post or wiki page and I am happy. But this screencast matched my needs really well. I particularly liked the pace of it. It covered a ton of ground in just 1 hour. I had to pause frequently so I could play around and grok what had been said. I am happier to pause and rewind as needed instead of wait for a laborious presenter.

I recommend that interested Drupal developers watch this screencast. At least you'll be able to evaluate git in an informed way. I still expect to use a central Subversion repository on my current client projects, but I might just try git-svn as a client.

If you'd like to see Drupal move to a modern VCS, here is how you can help.

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