Re: Good book on Git

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Perry.

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:56:40PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> I found the book "Pro Git" to be very useful when I was trying to
> learn Git inside and out.

> It is available for free here in a variety of formats:

> http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

> and is creative commons licensed.

> It has introductory information early on, and later delves into
> Git's internals so you can understand exactly what is happening
> behind the curtain. (I personally found that part to be helpful -- I
> never really have a proper model of something in my head until I know
> how it actually works.)

I'm afraid I didn't find it helpful, because it's not searchable.  The
text is fragmented into ~100 smallish web pages, making a systematic
search of one page after another impractical.  If you're looking for the
answer to questions such as "what is the next step after I've done "git
fetch"?" or "what does "git merge" do?" you won't find them here easily.

However, if you're the sort of person who reads this sort of book from
beginning to end, I would think it a good read.

> Perry
> -- 
> Perry E. Metzger              address@hidden

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).