David A. Greene wrote:
guts and inner workings
i found http://help.github.com incredibly helpful to get going. it seems to come from the opposite side, though - i had my github account, the spoon-knife test repo and some project forks up and running within minutes, as that's mostly just mouse clicks on a website - but i still hadn't really grasped gits concepts. next, i wanted to change some code in projects i had forked. host:~ user$ git help --> gives an overview of what commands are available, many of them are familiar from svn or other VCSs host:~ user$ git help <command> --> explains <command> in detail i got a few minor things wrong the first time i tried them and i still have not seen everything git can do, but from my experience, most people will be up and running in git after half a day at the most. git is definitely easier to get your head around than some of the stuff done in some of the boost libraries ;-)