| | Publisher: Apress | Publication: 2009, English | ISBN: 9781430218333 | Pages: 288 |
In April 2005, Linus Torvalds published the very first version of Git, the distributed version control system that is the topic of this book, and started managing the Linux kernel project with it.
Countless online pages have been written about Git by third parties since then, but many of them are unfortunately obsolete—not in the sense that the procedures they teach no longer work, but in the sense that there are better ways to do the same things more effectively with more modern versions of Git. The rate at which Git has undergone vast improvements both in capability and usability has been simply too rapid for those pages to keep up.
For a long time, the user manual and the documentation that came with Git were the only up-to-date and accurate sources of information, but they were primarily written by the people who built Git. The Git community sorely lacked good introductory material written from the perspective of the end user.
Enter Scott Chacon, the author of this book, who is also behind git-scm.com, the popular online resource that has become the default home site for Git documentation. In this latest book, Scott makes effective use of graphics to explain the key concepts and writes in plain and clear language to give a readable overview of how to work with Git.
After you gain a solid understanding from this book, I hope you will find yourself being more productive and using Git more effectively.
And, more important, I hope you will enjoy using Git. | |
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