On: How to teach Git

[diegoperini]

If so, I'd love to see a more elaborate, guide-like version of this model.

I've tried a similar approach years ago for teaching and failed spectacularly. Eventually, my peers became comfortable when they got used to the Github Desktop Client. They compared the buttons they click with my terminal commands. We also compared our graph views on Github website to visualize the logic.

It's been years and still none of them used rebase even a single time. A sad story in my teaching non-career. :(

[rachelmcarmena → diegoperini]

I drew those diagrams after reading Pro Git Book. I missed what appeared at my head, but the entire book is very useful.

For me, command line is freedom. GUIs are very limited.

Don't give up! For my humble experience:

- Try to know your peers, how they work, what difficulties they face when using command line, ...

- "I'm lost" > "git status"

- "How did we solve... ? > "git log"

- "This command is difficult to remember." or "This command makes no sense, I prefer this another name for that action" > "git alias"