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

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Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 19, 2010, 15:54 UTC
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Hey,
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Dun Peal <dunpealer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks; sounds like it should serve well for the Advanced and possibly
> Intermediate categories. Still need a good text for the Newbie class.

For newbies as a sort of shorter tutorial/reference I also have http://gitref.org These and other resources are listed out in http://git-scm.com/documentation

> P.S. I glanced at it briefly and it seemed a bit out of date, but
> perhaps my inspection was too cursory.

It is up to date as of 1.6.x - I have pulled in updates in some parts and added blog posts on newer features and whatnot, but the main text even should not really be noticeably out of date. At some point I will roll the blog post updates back into the main text.

Do you have any examples?
Scott
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Message 8 of 11 in “Best newbie / advanced / expert reference texts for Git?”
  1. Dun PealNov 19, 2010
  2. Patrick DoyleNov 19, 2010
  3. Dun PealNov 19, 2010
  4. Konstantin KhomoutovNov 19, 2010
  5. Jakub NarebskiNov 19, 2010
  6. Dun PealNov 19, 2010
  7. Scott ChaconNov 19, 2010
  8. Scott ChaconNov 19, 2010
  9. Dun PealNov 19, 2010
  10. Scott ChaconNov 19, 2010
  11. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyNov 19, 2010

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