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Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub

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What it is

Scott Chacon introduces Git by showing what happens under the hood for basic commands: staging, committing, data storage, branching, merging and pushing. He contrasts it with Subversion and shows history viewing with log.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters keep recommending it as the best video for newcomers who want to understand how Git works technically.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2012, last 2016

What HN commenters said

  1. “Scott Chacon's videos are priceless.”

    Explains how git works internally in simplest terms.

    jzl, 2016-11 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: Is there a “ground-up” explanation of PGP/GnuPG?”

  2. “This is the video that I keep recommending to new people who want to know how it works on a technical level.”

    Recommended to newcomers wanting a technical grasp of Git.

    kwe, 2016-12 · Strong recommendation · in “A Git catastrophe cleaned up”

  3. “It's over an hour long and very detailed.”

    Long, detailed talk on how Git works.

    grannyg00se, 2012-07 · Recommendation · in “Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: git, version control, branching, scott chacon, subversion

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