“Have I mentioned today how much git rocks?” — One of my office mates

I hear that spontaneous outpouring of appreciation for git about once a day. Usually it is someone in the office who just finished a task that would have been difficult with any of the source control systems we had used previously. Git has really impacted our day to day development process, and that’s the sign of a powerful tool.

It wasn’t always like this. I remember when EdgeCase made a rather abrupt switchover from subversion to git. I had only been dabbling with git at the time, but the guys in charge of our code repositories said “Here, this is good stuff. We’re switching … Now.”

Let me tell you, it was a little rough for a few days. Eventually we figured it out. Although we love the tool now, the learning curve was a bit steep to climb.

About two months ago we were talking in the office about git and how to encourage people to adopt it. We talked abou the need for a gentle introduction to git that quickly gets the user over the learning curve quickly. That gave me the idea for the “Souce Control Made Easy” talk that teaches the concepts behind git by starting from scratch developing the ideas behind git one by one.

A Pragmatic Screen Cast

Mike Clark of the Pragmatic Studio contacted me about turning the talk into a screencast that could reach a wider audience than the normal conference-going crowd. I’m happy to say that Source Control Made Easy is now available from the Prags.

If you are thinking about adopting git, or have already started using git but are still at the awkward stage, then this screen cast is design for you. The Pragmatic Studio page has a link to a preview of the screen cast. I hope you check it out.