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Git Community Book

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Scott Chacon <schacon@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 29, 2008, 16:20 UTC
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So I wanted to develop a really nice, easy to follow book for Git newcomers to learn git quickly and easily. One of the issues I remember having when learning Git is that there is a lot of great material in the User Guide, Tutorial, Tutorial 2, Everyday Git, etc - but they're all huge long documents that are sometimes difficult to come back to and remember where you were, and I didn't know which one to start with or where to find what I was looking for, etc.

So, what I've started to do is pull material from all of them into a single book which will be available in online HTML (one page per chapter) and downloadable PDF form. I'm trying to give it a very organized flow that will hopefully be a bit easier to follow and digest than the current formats, and including a number of diagrams, illustrations and screencasts to supplement the text. Where possible, I am also trying to simplify the explanations a bit to be a tad more digestible for beginning users, at least in the first couple dozen chapters. I have put the current html output of this book here:

http://book.git-scm.com

It is not complete - the grey links are chapters that are very short or completely empty - but it is a start. Please let me know what you think, and if anyone is interested in helping with the project, give me a shout.

Also, for credit, I have generated an Authors page I will be linking to the site soon that lists everyone that contributed a patch to any of the Git User Guide, Git Tutorials, etc. It is in the PDF right now, but not in the HTML version yet (and the PDF is not yet linked to the site).

Thanks, Scott

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