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This book is one of the best books for learning how git truly works. It was an excellent and complete introduction too. It is a great read and helped me learn git and start the journey and a wonderful journey it is.
The author rushes through complex scenarios involving complex merges and branches. This book helps understand the repo management better.
Git is a revolution! It does so accurately and in enough detail without being too esoteric. This fills the gap. Makes the highly complex git simple.
It's very easy to find help online for simple 'git' tasks. There are chapters that talk about the advanced git commands and their gotchas. It's so much more than a how-to internet guide, it's even easy to help help online to build a nice'git' workflow... Read More
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The index is terrible - only a few pages long with only the most minimal entries provided. The indentation of the shell commands in this book are so far off that i rely on the freely available web version to actually read it. The formatting of the cod... Read More
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Get to grips with the basics by the end of chapter 2
This is the essential reference if youre planning on mastering the git scm software product
Again scott chacon avoids the proselytizing and sticks to teaching the functionality and benefits of git which i appreciate es... Read More
Before listing any issues with the book just an fyi im reading it using the cloud reader in firefox 66
Competitiveness
If youre a basic git user and want to become a powerpro user this might be the best book to read
Its a complete detailed book about the git world
Its so much more than a howto internet guide
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The writing could be better more concise more clear less chatty in some places
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Its free and i did learn the basics
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Once i was able to break it down into pieces his structure was pointing from one branch to another without the transitions in place
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I had to figure out the transitions by trial and error
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Ultimately i prevailed but i wasted a lot of time that i would have loved to save or put toward something else
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I have a long way to go as well
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In terms of referencing old material i needed the pdf to search through it the book itself isnt exactly your best friend for reference material browsing
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Ill be sticking with basic usage but i can go back and reference the advanced topics later
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