I'm maintaining _why's Hackety Hack, which was built specifically for this purpose. It's still in "not quite 100% ready yet" mode, but you can at least keep your eyes peeled. I'm also quite open to thoughts and suggestions. http://hackety-hack.heroku.com/ http://github.com/steveklabnik/hacketyhack

There were infiltrators: http://bit.ly/3lJ6Z2

It was. From Twitter: RT @G20IMC Epic Police Fail: http://bit.ly/3lJ6Z2 Undercover officers attempt to infiltrate a March Against Police Brutality #G20 #reportg20

The protest started in Lawrenceville, as that's a neighborhood that's full of those sympathetic to the protesters, as well as having a great park for a gathering place. Then, when the police blocked off Penn Ave, the protest moved around them and into some other neighborhoods. The police regrouped, tear gas started to fly, the LRAD was activated, then the dumpster happened, the protest moved back up Liberty away from downtown, an ATM was vandalized, police started firing rubber bullets, the last gasps of that group bled through north oakland into oakland proper. A group of students had gathered to see Obama's motorcade pull into Phipps, but the police heard that the protest was coming down Craig, so they started attacking students with tear gas. Some storefronts got broken.

4GB sticks are different than 2GB sticks. Yes, 2GB sticks cost $100, and 4GB sticks cost $500. It's harder to fit 4GB on one stick than 2GB.

It's not intuitive to people who've never used a Mac. It's worked that way in Mac-land for decades, we'd be confused if it worked a different way.

Check out GitForDarcsUsers. Also, you may be interested in why ghc switched to git.

I'm basically the same as you. I rarely use anything but those commands, and I'd agree that git is pretty easy to use, as long as you're sticking to the basics.

From what I understand, git used to be a huge patchwork of scripts that were much more difficult, and they spent some time a while ago making them a bit easier.

The release still has to come from somewhere. The idea is that you let GitHub become the repo where everyone starts from. Only the lead maintainer (or whoever) actually has access. He only merges that repo with his. He only merges his repo with the ones of the leads for each major section of the project. They only merge changes with people who are working on their section...etc. Think pyramid. This is how Linux is handled.

Other people have answered, but I feel that Linus can explain things for himself. Linus talks about Git. He discusses how it works with the kernel...even thought it's a bit long, it's pretty good as an intro to the git vs svn argument.