Bill Ricker contacted me to suggest that I let you know that O'Reilly is about to release a book on Git. For your viewing pleasure, here is a draft that has gone through a copy-edit but needs to be proofed by the author (so there may be small errors still):
ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/outgoing/Version_Control_with_Git.zip. I didn't mention this on these lists before because it's a proprietary book, it hasn't been released yet (except on O'Reilly's RoughCuts) and I didn't want to seem to be using these mailing lists for advertising. But Bill's suggestion gave me the chutzpa to post this. If you want to share this draft with colleagues, do so. Just don't post it in lots of public places, please. (I know; these lists are public already.) The server will automatically delete the draft in about a week--and after all, the book is still being checked for errors. I do believe that this book goes into more depth than existing books and online tutorials--not by covering every damn feature in Git and its add-ons, but in explaining the complex underlying concepts. We can't make changes at this late date, but I can collect ideas for the next edition. (Bill gave me a couple.) Naturally, if you'd like to offer an endorsement for our web site, write a (hopefully favorable) review for Amazon.com, or just mention the book in blogs and at conferences, I'd love it. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: an...@oreilly.com Editor 10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02138-1175, USA fax: 617-661-1116 identi.ca/twitter:praxagora http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
