Re: Best newbie / advanced / expert reference texts for Git?

[Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> What are the best texts for the following three levels of knowledge:
>
> 1. Newbie: someone who used a simple, centralized SCM (such as SVN)
> but never touched Git.
> 2. Intermediate: someone who uses Git's simpler features, and can do
> simple branching/merging, but would like to fully understand the
> underlying concepts such as the DAG, and master all common user-level
> operations such as branching, merging, and rebasing.
> 3. Advanced: someone who knows all the above, but would like to know
> everything there is to know about Git.
>
> The target audience in my particular case is smart, with strong CS
> background, especially those in the two latter categories.
>
> Being available online is a plus, but will not disqualify a good
> offline reference.
Check out http://progit.org/.  I am not affiliated with the author(s)
or the web site.  I just stumbled across it a couple of weeks ago when
I went to set up a git server for our group.  It seems to answer every
question I've ever had about git, and then some.

--wpd