Understanding Git: A Quick Start Guide

Git is a free source code management tool that's even more powerful than Subversion and CVS. It's lightning fast, supports extremely large projects, handles branching and merging with stunning ease, and offers the ability to check in even while offline. The development community is moving to Git and you should be too. Come learn how to get up and running fast. We'll also explore GitHub, a revolutionary new way to share and collaborate on software.

Git is a free source code management tool that's even more powerful than Subversion and CVS. It's lightning fast, supports extremely large projects, handles branching and merging with stunning ease, and offers the ability to check in even while offline. The development community is moving to Git and you should be too. Come learn how to get up and running fast. We'll also explore GitHub, a revolutionary new way to share and collaborate on software.

About Matthew Bass

Matthew Bass is an independent software developer, entrepreneur, speaker, and writer. He has over ten years of experience across a diverse set of technologies and has worked at places like SAS Institute, the world's largest privately held software company. An agilist from the very beginning, he continues evangelizing and experimenting with pair programming, test-first and behavior-driven development, and continuous integration. Matthew has spoken at several regional and national software conferences and regularly writes for publications like InfoQ.

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