[ANN] Pro Git Reedited - a New Version of the Pro Git Book

When I started learning Git, I spent a fair amount of time reading Pro Git. I found that it was a 2 steps forward, 1 step back experience. By this I mean I’d learn a couple of new things but then I’d either read something I didn’t understand, or else I’d realize that my previous understanding was wrong. But, once I developed a better understanding of Git, I went back to re-read the sections that I didn’t previously understand. I’d almost always think to myself that if only this word or that phrase could be changed slightly, the concept would have been much easier to understand. This happens to me a lot when reading technical books.

Given that Scott was generous enough to release Pro Git as a free book with the manuscript sources available at GitHub, I decided to return the favor by doing a complete edit in an attempt to improve the areas I had trouble with and to generally tighten up the text. I’ve fed all these changes back to the maintainer of Pro Git via GitHub pull requests. He’s free to decide what he wants to do with them. Meanwhile, I've published my own version of this book, which I call Pro Git Reedited.

The PDF version of Pro Git Reedited is at https://www.dropbox.com/s/4awq55350ef235m/progitreedited.en.pdf and the source code is at https://github.com/nobozo/progitreedited

I welcome your feedback. Please send any comments to me at nobozo@gmail.com. To make sure I recognize them as comments about this book, please include [PGR] in the subject.

Jon Forrest nobozo@gmail.com