[GSOC 2014] - Yangmin's current work

[Luca Clementi]

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Philippe Ombredanne
<pombredanne at nexb.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:59 PM, yangmin zhu <zym0017d at gmail.com> wrote:
>>I am really new to open source project
>> and feel some kind lost about how the open source development work.
>
> Hang in there, you are here to learn... ;)
>
>> I found the strace code changing every week. And I will merge the
>> latest strace code to my github regularly to keep up to date.
>
> You best bet is to rebase frequently.
>
>> I am going to do some cleaning on my github. I tried some git commands
>> and it seems brought some small problems to the repository. And I need to study
>> more about git and the source control things.
>
> If you are lost a bit with Git there are some GUI wrapper tools that
> can help at start to tame the beast.
> There are a few good tutorials out there. Tell us if you need some pointers.

I really like the GIT pro book.
http://git-scm.com/book

It is free! and it is well written (IMHO).
If you want to use GIT proficiently, you should really consider
reading chapters: 1, 2, and 3.

Luca