Tom Panzarella on 15 Oct 2010 08:51:25 -0700


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Re: Git books


Thanks to everyone for sending out their suggestions. They are all very good ... I appreciate it.

-Tom.


On Oct 15, 2010, at 11:46 AM, Walt Mankowski wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:02:18AM -0400, Mark Dominus wrote:
>> 
>> I found "Git from the bottom up" tremendously useful.  It is not a
>> book, which I consider an advantage.  An experienced engineer might
>> appreciate the approach, which is to explain the internals, and the
>> brevity.
>> 
>>        http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
> 
> At the Pittsburgh Perl Workshop last weekend, one of the best talks
> was one where the speakers explained how git works internally using
> tinkertoys and post-it notes.  It sounds silly (and it was, of course)
> but was also really helpful in understanding what was going on with
> branches, merging, rebases, etc.  Skimming through this document, it
> looks like it might be doing much the same thing, but in more detail.
> 
> Walt


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