On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Jay Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:

More pointedly, is there a really *good* "Software Development Version Management HOWTO" anywhere at all?  I've looked at the git book, and it just knocked me on my ass from the first chapter.  I *almost* understand BZR... but I haven't seen a good 30,000ft explanation of any of them, written for people who are good programmers, but have never worked with one before.

I think this might be what you're looking for: http://producingoss.com/en/vc.html

...though the information is a little dated. Then again, our version control system is a little dated, so maybe this is just right (though ignore pretty much everything said about CVS).

Regarding MediaWiki-specific information about branching and so on, that's largely covered here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Commit_access

...though that documentation could stand some improvement. (volunteers?)

Rob