Monday, July 25, 2011

“Version Control By Example” - Free ebook from Eric Sync (Think “226 pages focusing on DVCS, GIT, Mercurial, Veracity and SVN”)

Eric Sync - Version Control by Example

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About the book

This book uses practical examples to explain version control with both centralized and decentralized systems. Topics covered include:

  • Basic version control commands and concepts
  • Introduction to Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS)
  • Advanced branching workflows
  • Strengths and weaknesses of DVCS vs. centralized tools
  • Best practices
  • How distributed version control works under the hood

Featuring these open source version control tools:

  • Apache Subversion
  • Mercurial
  • Git
  • Veracity

Here my usual PDF snap (so you can get a feel for the contents and proof that it’s downloadable  ;)

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(via Eric Sink - Version Control by Example)

3 comments:

  1. Hi Greg, I don't know why comments on your blog are always empty ;) but I would like to thank you for your great site! Through your news and founds I get a lot of good things and knowledge. Your website is awsome :)

    Thank you :)

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  2. Hi Greg.
    is that any way to download this book from here?

    Or
    Could you please send this book to my emailid?

    ram.kingalive@gmail.com

    Many thanks,
    Ramachandran Annamalai.

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  3. @ram; Just click though to the post, http://www.ericsink.com/vcbe/ and click on the Download you're interested in (PDF US Letter or A4, ePub, etc).

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