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Re: Learnin' some git. Was: RE: Is this the future of technical writing?
Subject:Re: Learnin' some git. Was: RE: Is this the future of technical writing? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:"techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:41:31 -0800
Functionally, for managing doc files, I find Git similar to CVS, SVN,
P4, and VSS. The cheat sheet I wrote for the tasks I perform regularly
has only seven commands (clone, checkout, pull, rm, add, commit, push)
in a few different permutations.
I think every revision control system I've used has had a significant
learning curve. There's always some command you expect to have that's
missing, or the workflow is backwards from what you're used to.
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Shawn <shawn -at- cohodata -dot- com> wrote:
> To make matters somewhat more challenging, every company implements git in
> a slightly different manner. It is a very flexible tool that way.
>
> Even thought I am very technical (spent years as a Network Admin - Novell,
> Windows, and Linux servers), I have not yet fully embraced git for
> documentation in my current company. I find git`s CLI (via Cygwin terminal)
> very cryptic and not quite suitable for documentation (IMO). To date, I've
> been using it only as a backup application. Rather unnecessary because I
> prefer and depend on my personal 3.5" HDD for off-site backup and my
> Dropbox sync for instant cloud recovery.
>
> Until Flare keeps their promise and adds in git support, I will likely not
> use git for any important role.
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