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Version Control With Git (2009)

by Jon Loeliger(Favorite Author)

3.77 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0596520123 (ISBN13: 9780596520120)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

O'Reilly Media

review 1: I use this book as a reference, though I read the first version all the way through.Disappointed that this version hasn't added any content on signing tags and why that should be done.The expanded section on github is nice, but more info on other tools using git would be nice.As a reference book it is great. The descriptions are detailed and efficient without sacrificing clarity. Git is a complex tool but this book is useful in understanding it.
review 2: This book on the Git source repository system is probably one of the driest tech books I've ever read. It's filled with overly complex explanations of an already overly complex piece of software, which made it hard to tell the difference. Here's an example of the treats in store for you if you read it:"Directl... morey fetching and merging a branch with a complex history will yield a different history in the receiving repository than the history that results from a patching sequence. Remember, one of the effects of creating a patch sequence on a complex branch is to topologically sort the graph into a linearized history. Hence, applying it to another repository yields a linearized history that wasn't in the original." less

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