Git Makes More Sense When You Understand X
As I mentioned in Why This Site?, I once tried to help a friend learn Git by saying something that—he later told me—wasn't all that helpful. After getting that feedback, I started noticing this pattern:
People tend to say things like "Git makes more sense when you understand [...]".
So I did a quick Google search for that phrase in April 2011, and it turned up over 8 million results. (Here, try it yourself.)
I've chosen a few examples of this pattern to talk about briefly.
- About This Site
- Git Makes More Sense When You Understand X ←HEAD
- Example 1: Kent Beck
- Example 2: Git for Ages 4 and Up
- Example 3: Homeomorphic Endofunctors
- Example 4: LSD and Chainsaws
- The Internet Talks Back!
- Graph Theory
- Seven Bridges of Königsberg
- Places To Go, and Ways to Get There
- Nodes and Edges
- Attaching Labels to Nodes
- Attaching Labels to Edges
- Directed Versus Undirected Graphs
- Reachability
- Graphs and Git
- Visualizing Your Git Repository
- References
- The Reference Reference
- Making Sense of the Display
- Garbage Collection
- Experimenting With Git
- References Make Commits Reachable
- My Humble Beginnings
- Branches as Savepoints
- Use Your Targeting Computer, Luke
- Testing Out Merges
- Rebase From the Ground Up
- Cherry-Picking Explained
- Using 'git cherry-pick' to Simulate 'git rebase'
- A Helpful Mnemonic for 'git rebase' Arguments
- The End
