Question about Source Control

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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>Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> Wrote in message:
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Ooops, sorry. Below is the email again, hopefully more readable. 

One more thing (so this is not entirely a double post!). While reading these books I found that the authors were pretty religious about Clean Commits. I mean, ok, it's not a good idea to do one huge monolithic commit each month, but I felt they were exaggerating. But maybe I'm wrong and clean commits become more important when the number of collaborators get bigger. It's just so easy to fix something, and e.g. correct that typo in a docstring while you're at it.


regards,
Albert-Jan




Hi,

I can recommend the book "Pragmatic Guide to Git". Very practical and to the point:

http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Guide-Git-Programmers/dp/1934356727/ref=sr_1_1/184-0142481-0484062?ie=UTF8&qid=1395518159&sr=8-1&keywords=pragmatic+guide+to+git


I addition, I read a big fat super-exhaustive book, I believe it' s this one (there are two Git books with a bat!):

http://www.amazon.com/Version-Control-Git-collaborative-development/dp/1449316387/ref=sr_1_2/184-0142481-0484062?ie=UTF8&qid=1395518159&sr=8-2&keywords=pragmatic+guide+to+git


The former is for common tasks that are not common enough to remember right away. The latter is for reference.

I only have experience with git and subversion. I like git much better. But any SCM is better than none at all.

 Regards,

Albert-Jan