Beanstalk Guides

These guides are probably not as useful to the majority of the HackerNews audience, but I thought it might be helpful to explain why we're publishing these guides.

It's hard to believe, but absolutely true, that there are WAY more people who aren't using ANY version control than have made a clear decision about using one over the other.

The benefits of version control are clear once you start using them, but are less clear to people who haven't used it before. We want to illustrate that benefit while at the same time making it easy to learn about best practices and techniques to improve your entire development and design workflow.

It's been a fascinating process finding large dense communities of designers and developers who still have excuses for not using ANY version control. There's still a huge public service to be done for teaching version control basics and best practices to the audiences who don't have any significant adoption yet.