How to Read This Book

This book is organized in parts to guide you from starting out through more complex situations, with each part broken down into tasks. Tasks follow a specific formula: the left page explains the task and the commands related to it, and the right page gives you the raw commands with a little bit of information about them and a cross-reference to related tasks.

You can read this book in paper form as an open book to see the tasks side by side, but it’s also an excellent reference in digital form, especially when searching for a particular Git task.

If you’re reading a digital version of this book on a computer with a large enough display, I recommend setting your reader to display two pages side by side instead of ...

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