From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Doyle Subject: Re: Best newbie / advanced / expert reference texts for Git? Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:18:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Git ML To: Dun Peal X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Nov 19 12:19:10 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJOzj-0002H1-5e for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:19:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753384Ab0KSLTB (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:19:01 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f46.google.com ([209.85.161.46]:37343 "EHLO mail-fx0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753063Ab0KSLTA (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:19:00 -0500 Received: by fxm13 with SMTP id 13so551234fxm.19 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:18:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=3EU4nu5gv/dOUnN0+6CoaN8i4+qThkL76RstVg1qJQk=; b=F1BupKhGxOZmK8c7EeuDjsH2yLOU64IuRjEupOUdZdF+jcBVuWd0YirzdMhyOySvYF FFi16OmJ5KlIcKtQhY4jSYgEZHdnYEq0Iabli7wMyo9t2U8Un7RPD8e1rJPywkAE8ps3 Vcg5Dl3rZ5nzTsDthYpnpNiZFVTuWNIEFllXs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=GYfsVamaEgropD0u8XAuIoS13kNJ8fwOt3FMh3OEFtZjh/VvCuDqs7NCBET+0egGOq bLd0CGrIhV7fq9fYDfgGObbcjclQqH6AtEETTFuF9GB2FGps8qLmWP2qhtTGcVVXM6G9 J8UmoZfpr108of0JDqmCuFNKRJRgaPnHaRKKE= Received: by 10.223.72.198 with SMTP id n6mr1641281faj.125.1290165536311; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:18:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.115.17 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Nov 2010 03:18:36 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Dun Peal 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