Re: Good book on Git

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 14:46:50 +0300 Filipp Gunbin
<fgunbin@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 15/11/2014 00:32 +0300, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > The Git manuals that come with Git itself are of course fully
> > free, but they are not always the easiest introduction.
> 
> The git-tutorial pages (1 and 2) provide an easy quickstart help,
> and then usual man pages for various commands are good.
> 

Certainly. However, if one is the sort of person who hacks on emacs,
one is also the sort of person who would probably learn quite a bit
about git's model from understanding the underlying infrastructure.

Until I really got how git works, the reason certain things are easy
and certain things are hard, why the tools do what they do, etc., did
not make sense to me.

I think the online book I pointed at does a good job for a
sophisticated user. It also provides a better overview of how
relatively more sophisticated operations with the tools (like
rebasing and such) are best performed.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com