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About Ron Gross  My walk through the Git book  I’ve been
experimenting with git for about the last year, but most of the
work I did with it so far was in the “single developer, hack
some stuff, push to github” mode of operation, which is very
superficial.  Now that I’ll be working with it full time (git is
one of the “semi wildly adopted” SCMs at Google), I thought it’s
time to take a closer look at some wisdom accumulated by other
folks, so I finally cracked open the Git book and did a pass
over it.  The book is great and usually very fluid. It begins by
show-casing the simple use cases you’ll encouter with git, and
is filled with short code snippets you can try (even on a train
with no WiFi – this is a distributed source control system after
all). Some of the examples weren’t crystal clear straight out of
the box, and relied on some previous knowledge the authors had
(after all, much of the book was pulled together from different
sources, so I imag