Using git with Django Screencast

This has been something I have been meaning to do for quite some time. I am happy to now say I have my first screencast ready for download.

This screencast covers how to use git with the Django subversion. Be sure to check out the git website for more documentation. Here are a few other good resources I highly recommend you check out:

The Peepcode git screencast. It is $9.00, but I think it is well worth it.

The git documentation.

The first video I saw on git: a talk by Linus Torvalds at Google.

An excellent video by Randall Schwartz.

I am also working on djangocasts.com which will be eventual home of all my screencasts. I would like to give a shout out to Michael Trier for helping me out in getting this screencast made. Now without further ado the download link to screencasts!

Download screencast (24.6 MB, 11:23, 800x600, Apple Animation)

Disclaimer: I am new to screencasts, video and making everything work. Please let me know what I can do to improve anything.

Comments

Great screencast for your first one! Very clear and the screen resolution is great!

Keep it up.

Posted by John M on Jan 24, 2008 at 7:04 PM

Well done! Thanks for this screencast, keep this good work up.

Posted by Stefan on Jan 24, 2008 at 7:05 PM

Well done! In case you don't want to wait for the svn download to finish, you can grab a copy of django here:

http://spinlock.ch/pub/git/?p=django/...

The git url is git://spinlock.ch/pub/git/django/django.git

This git mirror is updated hourly.

Posted by Matthias on Jan 24, 2008 at 7:16 PM

Excellent screencast.

Im currently re-installing git-core with +svn. On the beginning you said that macports could use the buildin svn in leopard and that there must be some variable set which will be in the release notes, but they're still not here ;(

Posted by maki on Jan 24, 2008 at 7:17 PM

Hi Brian, great screencast. A friend pinged me the link thinking that your video might reach more people if you posted it into our ShowMeDo site? We host over 150 python tutorial videos including several on Django - Siddhi's Django video is our *most* popular and has been for months.
Siddhi has received over 70 comments on his page from happy viewers, I'd guess you'd get similarly good views. You can see his video at the top of our most-popular list:
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Posted by Ian Ozsvald on Jan 26, 2008 at 6:50 AM

Very nice screencast. I tend to lean towards Bazaar as a distributed VCS, but seeing this makes me want to try out git too. By the way, I love the redesign--clean look!

Posted by Eric Florenzano on Jan 28, 2008 at 5:54 PM

Thank you for your effort to make a screencast.

Watching it right now and it looks great.

Posted by Petar on Jan 31, 2008 at 5:34 AM

I had a slightly different approach on my blog but I prefer your approach in that you also get all the branches and tags. Nicely done.
http://rob.cogit8.org/blog/2007/Sep/1...

It would be nice if there were some screencast notes for those that want to follow along and not have to pause/play to copy the commands. (Or maybe that's intentional since it might wreak havoc on Django's repository!)

Posted by Rob Hudson on Jan 31, 2008 at 1:24 PM

Thanks for the screencast, Brian.

Is it possible for you to publish your git branch?

Posted by Eddy Mulyono on Feb 1, 2008 at 12:33 PM

Looks good. Thanks for the screencast. Very informative in a short amount of time. Keep up the good work.

Posted by polera on Feb 2, 2008 at 10:46 PM

Excellent, thanks.

I think if you're working primarily in Terminal, you might make that window bigger, since it's not really covering up anything important.

Posted by Chris Ryland on Feb 4, 2008 at 12:14 PM

Great screencast!

None of the Linux media players I tried could skip forward though. VLC can seek the sound but not the video. Has anyone converted this to an open format?

Posted by akaihola on Feb 9, 2008 at 11:13 AM

What font are you using for terminal?

Posted by Justin Lilly on Feb 12, 2008 at 6:40 AM

I am using ProFont. http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprof...

Posted by brosner on Feb 27, 2008 at 9:16 AM

kmplayer can play it. sometimes it refuses, though

Posted by reza on Mar 11, 2008 at 7:29 PM

Great screencast! Showed me the basics of GIT and makes me want to try it out ;)

Posted by segfaulthunter on May 24, 2008 at 1:54 PM

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Published: Jan 23, 2008 at 6:37 PM