Greg Wilson is the co-founder of Software Carpentry, a crash course in computing skills for scientists and engineers. He has worked for more than 30 years in both industry and academia, and is the author or editor of several books on computing and two for children. Greg has a PhD in computer science, and presently lives in Toronto.
What I found hardest about using Git the first time was…
…the differences between its model of the world and Subversion’s. I’d been using Subversion for almost ten years (and CVS and Perforce before that), so I kept trying to use Git as if it was something else. This paper by Perez de Rosso and Jackson convinced me that I’m not alone…