[csw-maintainers] [offtopic] git presentation

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
> I'm going to be putting together a git presentation for a mostly
> technical audience.  I expect that most of these folks will not have
> used git although a few will have.  I'm curious what those of you who
> use git would present.  What features do you:

Disclaimer: entry-level git user

> find most useful?

* easy to maintain, local repository (no server)
* local commits (even when working with a server)
* git stash
* git commit --amend

I'd probably also add github's super-easy-to-use fork + pull request
workflow.

> find hardest to understand?

* when getting started: git's notion of an index/stage
* detached HEAD

Sebastian