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Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by J_Darnley » Tue, May 27, 2014, 9:44 AM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

Does anyone else find this to be quite hard to read? Just visually. Especially length of the lines and thinness of the font.

No. You mean it uses all (well nearly all) the width of the screen? I am pleased to see that for once rather than stuffing it into some narrow column, the width of which I would have complained about 10 years ago.

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by cabalamat » Tue, May 27, 2014, 9:53 AM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

Does anyone else find this to be quite hard to read? Just visually. Especially length of the lines and thinness of the font.

I do as well.

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by morsch » Tue, May 27, 2014, 10:11 AM UTC

EinLama wrote: post #2

I'd recommend another guide. "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon is excellent and welcomes patches, source for the book and its translations are on GitHub http://www.git-scm.com/book

For what it's worth, Pro Git doesn't really need recommendation, it's the first Google hit for half of my git related queries...

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by augustk » Tue, May 27, 2014, 10:12 AM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

Does anyone else find this to be quite hard to read? Just visually. Especially length of the lines and thinness of the font.

Yes, the site designer could (should) have used the CSS setting `max-width` for paragraphs (specifying `width` for paragraphs is, however, a big no-no in web design).

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by mateuszf » Tue, May 27, 2014, 10:14 AM UTC

Introduction with very similar approach: search for "Git from bottom up".

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by SimeVidas » Tue, May 27, 2014, 10:26 AM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

Does anyone else find this to be quite hard to read? Just visually. Especially length of the lines and thinness of the font.

Here's how to fix it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeCs8xwEzo

Steps:

1. max-width: 40em on wrapper element

2. font-weight increase from 300 to 400

3. include @font-face rules for Open Sans 400

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by juggty_dev » Tue, May 27, 2014, 10:44 AM UTC

Worth for pro..

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by jbranchaud » Tue, May 27, 2014, 11:07 AM UTC

EinLama wrote: post #2

I'd recommend another guide. "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon is excellent and welcomes patches, source for the book and its translations are on GitHub http://www.git-scm.com/book

What is great about Pro Git is that it is approachable by someone new to git, but also eventually takes the reader through an explanation of the internals of git. Definitely a must-read!

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by collyw » Tue, May 27, 2014, 11:10 AM UTC

EinLama wrote: post #2

I'd recommend another guide. "Pro Git" by Scott Chacon is excellent and welcomes patches, source for the book and its translations are on GitHub http://www.git-scm.com/book

I appreciate that git is powerful, but should we really need to read a book just to get the best from a source control system? It seems overly complex to me at times (any time I do anything outside of my usual workflow).

Version control only makes up a part of the whole development process, and plenty of coders out there manage without any at all.

Re: A Hacker’s Guide to Git

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Post by huhtenberg » Tue, May 27, 2014, 11:14 AM UTC

J_Darnley wrote: post #11

huhtenberg wrote: post #5

Does anyone else find this to be quite hard to read? Just visually. Especially length of the lines and thinness of the font.

No. You mean it uses all (well nearly all) the width of the screen? I am pleased to see that for once rather than stuffing it into some narrow column, the width of which I would have complained about 10 years ago.

How big is your screen?