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Whether you're making the switch from a traditional centralized version control system or are a new programmer just getting started, this book prepares you to start using Git in your everyday programming.
Pragmatic Version Control Using Git starts with an overview of version control systems, and shows how being distributed enables you to work more efficiently in our increasingly mobile society. It then progresses through the basics necessary to get started using Git.
You'll get a thorough overview of how to take advantage of Git. By the time you finish this book you'll have a firm grounding in how to use Git, both by yourself and as part of a team.
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Travis Swicegood is the "Performance Guy" for SugarCRM, Inc. He does performance testing and tuning to one of the most successful open-source PHP products to date. He's been programming professionally for nearly a decade, but would still be doing it for fun even if he was selling cars for a living.He is actively involved in the development of several open-source automation tools in the PHP community, including several unit testing suites. When he's not learning new programming languages or tools, he's normally found on one of his many bikes, tasting his latest culinary creation, or experimenting with his home brew creations.
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Essential introduction and reference for Git,
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This review is from: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git: 1 (Pragmatic Starter Kit) (Paperback)
Git is an immensely versatile set of tools which can add so much more to your development process than a centralised SCM like Subversion.Before I read this book, however, I'd been using Git for about a year and still had not moved very far from the old workflow I'd followed with Subversion. Reading Pragmatic Version Control Using Git gave me a better understanding of some of the commands I'd already been using, and also of those I hadn't yet used. I've now significantly expanded the repertoire of Git commands in my daily development. For me, Git is no longer just a version control tool, but a power-tool for agile development, experimentation and hacking. Like many others in the Prag Prog series, the book follows a narrative style based around an example development project, the repository for which is available from GitHub. This didn't slow me down through the bits I already knew, however, since the repository for each individual chapter is available separately. In the Appendices is also a reference of common Git command usages, so the book's usefulness will continue long after you've finished your first reading.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (22 customer reviews) 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Great resource on learning Git quickly,
By Telman Yusupov - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git: 1 (Pragmatic Starter Kit) (Paperback)
I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Git:- It explains concepts clearly and succinctly without being dry - It's short: you can go through this book in a day or two. - It succeeds in explaining what Git is and what the main most useful features are without going into unnecessary details. For anything in depth, Git manual is an excellent complementary source of information. - The book organized in a way that reminds me of classic K&R "The C Programming Language": a short introductory tutorial showcasing main tools and then more in-depth explanation of these tools in the following chapters. I find this type of organization to be most conductive to my learning process. The book has proven to be very useful to me in getting up to speed on Git quickly and deserves a 5 star rating. 20 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good book, but somewhat disappointing..,
By Eitan C. Suez "eitan" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git: 1 (Pragmatic Starter Kit) (Paperback)
it's wonderful to have a book on git out early. it's a great way to get started with git. the amount of content is somewhat skimpy. that's fine. i don't necessarily prefer books that are voluminous. but you get to the end of the book and you've gone through all of the examples and you get this sense that you haven't really grokked it. i just watched the youtube video of linus' speech on git at google, and i left with an understanding of the essence of git that i feel i didn't get from the book.
25 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
not as good as the free alternatives,
By Benjamin Crowell - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git: 1 (Pragmatic Starter Kit) (Paperback)
The first good news is that amazon is selling this book at a 33% discount compared to the price listed on the publisher's web site. Even the discounted price strikes me as pretty pricey for a 180-page trade paperback, but at least it's a little more within reason.I found the design of the book a little annoying and amateurish. It has an odd squarish shape, and the margins are goofy -- gigantic outside margins, and razor-thin top and bottom margins. Visually, it makes my eye feel like I'm about to fall off the bottom of the page when I get to the end of a page. The book is hot off the presses as of January 2009, and that's a good thing for a book documenting software that's relatively new and rapidly changing. The real question in my mind is whether it was a good thing that I spent my money on this printed book, rather than just using the wealth of free, online documentation available from links at Git's homepage. The free documentation includes Unix manpages, a user's manual, a tutorial, a wiki, and a community book. In one of my first attempts to use the book to get started with Git, I ran into a mistake, and had to go to the online information to get the right information. (The book tells you to "make install," when in fact what you need to do is "make prefix=/usr/local install.) I dislike the way the author presents the information. He has a tendency to rely on a combination of inexact metaphors and cookbook-style instructions. This left me with an uneasy feeling that I didn't understand exactly what I was doing, or why. The Wikipedia article on Git actually gave me a much better understanding of the general design philosophy of git and the basics of how it works and how it differs from other version control systems. |
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