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

From: Patrick Doyle <wpdster@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 19, 2010, 11:18 UTC
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On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com> wrote:

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> 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