Foreword

In April 2005, Linus Torvalds published the very first version of Git, the distributed version control system that is the topic of this book, and started managing the Linux kernel project with it.

Countless online pages have been written about Git by third parties since then, but many of them are unfortunately obsolete—not in the sense that the procedures they teach no longer work, but in the sense that there are better ways to do the same things more effectively with more modern versions of Git. The rate at which Git has undergone vast improvements both in capability and usability has been simply too rapid for those pages to keep up.

For a long time, the user manual and the documentation that came with Git were the only up-to-date and ...

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