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Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of GitHub

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.

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Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
InfoQ
Topic
git internals
Format
talk
Level
intro
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
3
Recommendation years in dataset
2012–2016

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • Scott Chacon's videos are priceless. (He's the co-author of the git book.) They explain exactly how git works internally in the simplest terms possible. Either or both of these: Introduction to Git - talk by Scott Chacon [LINK] Introduction to Git with Scott Chacon of …

    jzl on Hacker News · 2016-11
    In Ask HN: Is there a “ground-up” explanation of PGP/GnuPG?

  • This is the video that I keep recommending to new people who want to know how it works on a technical level. I've always had amazing/euphoric feedback to that recommendation. [VIDEO]

    kwe on Hacker News · 2016-12
    In A Git catastrophe cleaned up

  • A lot of these Git tutorials seem to walk you through a series of commands as if knowing the commands is knowing Git. I think they should focus on scenarios instead. Short stories like: "Bob's code is working well but he wants to try something …

    grannyg00se on Hacker News · 2012-07
    In Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?

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