I don't know if this will help but I was in a similar situation,
but the first thing I did after installing subversion was to
install a GUI client (in my case TortoiseSVN). That pretty much
got me "off the ground", but when I ran into something I couldn't
quite understand, that's when the book really helped.
So I guess you can either hit the book first or try to ease into
it by way of a GUI client like I did.
Teddy
Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Thursday, June 08, 2006 1:38 PM +0200 Markus KARG
> <markus.karg@quipsy.de> wrote:
>
>> I also was a member of the point-and-click crowed using VSS 6, but the
>> SVN book made me a believer. ;-) Read the book. It's the best way to
>> learn SVN. Even for dummies like me. ;-)
>
>
> I agree. It's very well-written. But when getting people to convert to a
> new system they often look for an excuse to fail, and having to read
> much to "get off the ground" can be a barrier to acceptance. It's not
> that the material isn't in the book. It's that the packaging suggests
> that one needs to read the whole thing before one can start. So
> abstracting out enough to do basic operations, a "quick start guide" if
> you will, would be a useful thing. Even something like you'd find in a
> magazine review would be fine. Just something that let's the PHB's get
> their head around it without having to read the full treatment. (I
> refuse to stoop to asking for a PowerPoint, though! Blech!)
>
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