DevOps for Java Developers - Git

[Raul Rios]

Hey Stephen, Melissa, Ixchel, and Baruch,

Congratulations for your new book.

I see in the book Table of Contents that you have included a chapter (2. The System of Truth) dedicated to Git.
Could you please explain a little bit the goal of this chapter in relation to DevOps?
For someome like me, still working with Subversion, does this chapter contains all the knowledge I would need to know for my jump into the use of version control for DevOps (Microservices, CI, Automated tests, etc)?

Thanks in advance.

[Melissa McKay]

Great question!

This chapter will give you some historical information on the different generations of version control and the reasoning behind using a source control versioning system like Git. I know it can be difficult at first moving from something like SVN to Git because it requires a different way of looking at source code repos. I've done it, so I empathize! The chapter includes instruction on Pull Requests, on git command line basics (including some comparisons with SVN), and most importantly, collaboration patterns and branching techniques like git-flow, trunk based development, and others.