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Re: SVN & Tortoise tutorials

From: Andy Levy <andy.levy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:50:23 -0500

2008/11/30 Ilan Yaniv <Ilan.Yaniv_at_timetoknow.org>:
> I want to teach them both.
> The thing is that they are working with Tortoise but they have many problems and it is because nobody told them how to work so they are swimming at deep water, and they are very unhappy, and unconfident with SVN

Don't teach them any client at all for starters. Teach the concepts &
workflow first. Then show them how to do those things in whichever
client(s) you're using.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert P. J. Day [mailto:rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca]
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 5:47 PM
> To: Ilan Yaniv
> Cc: Subversion Users
> Subject: Re: SVN & Tortoise tutorials
>
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Ilan Yaniv wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In my company there are many workers that don't understand well the
>> SVN, tortoise idea.
>>
>> Before I start writing my own Power Point tutorial (and I am not so
>> good with Power Point) I thought that there are already written
>> tutorials for those tools, and I can find and download them from the
>> Internet.
>>
>> Could you let me know where can I find them?
>
> i suggest that, before you try to teach a specific GUI like
> tortoise, you make sure your colleagues truly understand the
> fundamentals of version control WRT subversion. until they really
> appreciate how it works, teaching them a particular GUI won't be of
> much value.
>
> rday
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