Pro Git

Git is the version control system developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It took the open source world by storm since its inception in 2005, and is used by small development shops and giants like Google, Red Hat, and IBM, and of course many open source projects.

* A book by Git experts to turn you into a Git expert
* Introduces the world of distributed version control
* Shows how to build a Git development workflow

What you’ll learn

* Use Git as a programmer or a project leader.
* Become a fluent Git user.
* Use distributed features of Git to the full.
* Acquire the ability to insert Git in the development workflow.
* Migrate programming projects from other SCMs to Git.
* Learn how to extend Git.

Who is this book for?

This book is for all open source developers: you are bound to encounter it somewhere in the course of your working life. Proprietary software developers will appreciate Git’s enormous scalability, since it is used for the Linux project, which comprises thousands of developers and testers.