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This week, we're delighted to have Raju Gandhi helping to answer questions about the new book Head First Git.
See the table of contents online.

The promotion starts Tuesday, March 15th, 2022 and will end on Friday, March 18th, 2022

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, O'Reilly.


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Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing, and should be reserved for welcoming the author. Questions posted in this topic are subject to removal.
 
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Welcome to the Ranch I hope you have lots of awkward interesting questions to answer.
 
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Amazing to have Raju in the Book Promotions.
Kudos to Raju!

Btw. Is the schedule outdated? There lists "Head First Git" to start on March 22.  
https://coderanch.com/wiki/660305/Book-Promotions-Schedule
 
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This is a book we all need!  Looking forward to reading.
 
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Amazing subject picked up by Raju, waiting to read it !!
 
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Finally someone took the time!!! SUPER thank you!
 
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Thanks to everyone for the warm welcome. I appreciate the kind words, and I do hope some of you get a chance to check out the book. I've been using Git since 2009, and feel like I was very proficient in it since 2013. I'll admit—I walked into this project thinking it would be an easy write, and boy was I wrong. Creating all the characters, narratives, and scenarios for each chapter—coming up with interesting exercises and puzzles, and finally laying the whole book out was a long, but very rewarding journey.

One thing I tried to do this in book was to find a balance between the how and why, and in particular, the what. By "what" I mean, what exactly happens when you create a commit, or a branch—what happens when you push or pull, or do a Git bisect. So while the book is targeted towards beginners, I feel that it will also help many who've for long used Git in anger, and not had a chance to step back and truly understand how Git really works, which I feel is a essence of really grokking something (you know, understanding one level of abstraction below you and all that).

I guess what I am trying to say, and was hoping I'd achieve in the book is that it helps even those who aren't just new to Git, but often struggle to understand why they do some things. For example, and I know I am guilty of this a long time ago, have you ever done this?



If yes, did you know there is a --mixed and a --soft. And that usually you are better off not doing a --hard. Of course, the question is—what's the difference? I have tried to include bit like these in every chapter, and one consistent comment I got from all my technical reviewers was that they came across not just one or two, but several bits of nuance about Git that they, as experienced folks took away.

Anyway, please reach out if you have questions. Like I said in my intro post, always have to talk Git, DevOps, software development, GitOps, containers what-have-you.

 
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Welcome !
I read this book in January. It's excellent. I'm spending a lot of time with tutorials these days and it is such a relief to come across one this well written. You did a great job of creating examples and explanations of what is going on with this less-than-intuitive program.
Thank you!
 
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Welcome Raju! Have fun with this promotion!
 
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Welcome Raju. Love that you created Head First Git.
 
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Hi Raju, Does your book shed some light on the merge vs. rebase when using remote repos?
 
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Wow! I am very touched.

@Phil Freihofner - Thank you for the kind words. I am glad you enjoyed it. If it helps, I am @looselytyped on Twitter (https://twitter.com/looselytyped) and DMs are open—so if you have any questions, please reach out.

@Alan Dickinson - No it does not. It recommends using merge to "catch up" with the integration branch, and discusses rebase as a standalone topic. The book is designed to be for beginners, and I purposely did not want to give folks too many options starting out. Though I feel that if you know what the effects of a merge are as opposed to those of a rebase, you can eventually evolve a workflow that works for you.

I realize you did not ask—but my workflow is

- Create a feature branch. Work on it
- Update integration (main, master, develop what-have-you) with a fetch/pull
- Rebase my topic branch on top of integration branch
- Push my branch upstream

My fellow contributors have learned that I routinely rebase, and so if they _did_ switch to my feature branch so they could review it, or test it, never to pull on that branch. Rather they fetch followed by a git reset --hard origin/<name-of-feature-branch>. Hope this helps.
 
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Welcome Raju.  This is a great forum.  Glad you are here.
 
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Rick Umali: good to see you too. I have a copy of your book about Git. It will make the discussions even more interesting if you stay around on this forum for the rest of the week.
 
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Thank you @Dustin Wright and @Campbell Ritchie!

And I did not realize we had @Rick Umali here! Woot! I have read your book, and I thought it was a great read.

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