On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 06:07:12PM -0600, _brian_d_foy wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Adam Turoff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At a recent DC.pm meeting, I gave an introduction to CVS. Most of > > the people in the group hadn't started using CVS and had wanted to > > learn for a good number of years. Anyone who started using CVS > > that month saved at least one man-hour of effort *that week*. > > really? i'd expect them to lose time that week, slowly make it > up, then save tons of time after that.
When I learned how to use CVS, it took me a few hours of not programming to sit and read the documentation and figure out how it worked. A lot of that time was spent making mistakes and learning how to recover from them. What I discussed in that meeting were lessons I learned, common misconceptions and tips to start using CVS. The time saved was in not spending hours to come up to speed. I suppose this principle is somewhat valid with other technical presentations. Z.
