Who Is This Book For?

This book is geared for someone new to Git who is looking to get up to speed quickly. This book is for you if you’re status.untracked.start familiar with another VCS such as Subversion and are looking for a quick guide to the Git landscape or if you’re a quick study and want a concise guide. It’s organized by task to make it easy to translate from the task you need to accomplish to how the process works in Git.

If you’ve never used a version control system before and thought Subversion was something you did to overthrow governments, this book will get you up and running with Git. For much more detail on version control concepts, you should read Pragmatic Version Control Using Git,^[1] my other book, as well.