Distributed Version Control University
April 28th, 2011 by Benjamin Pollack
One of the major tasks we wanted to accomplish on the Fog Creek World Tour was to teach people about distributed version control systems, such as Mercurial. A lot of people have been clamoring for a video of the talk we gave, so I’m happy to announce that we’ve finally got it live:
One of the things we struggled with when trying to design the talk was how to bring people up-to-speed on the basics of distributed version control, and get them to understand why distributed version control was so amazing. Our solution was to break the talk into two pieces: the first part covers the very basics of Mercurial, the how do I use this?. The second half discusses some of the workflows that are hard in traditional systems, but really easy in distributed ones, the why do I want to use this?. Finally, there’s a long question and answer session at the end that’s probably interesting regardless of your skill level.
Saw the video, and liked what you saw? Take Kiln for a test drive! You can even follow along with the talk, learning Mercurial and playing with the very same workflows we discuss in the video.
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