Pragmatic Version Control: Using Subversion By Mike mason is a great introduction to using Subversion, covering many aspects in great detail. This book provides a really useful resource for beginners and more advanced users alike. The book spans many topics from setting up a repository to advanced features such as merging branches, each one given a dedicated ‘recipe’ for use. The only real flaw with this book is the flow is occasionally spoilt by info boxes throughout the text, however despite this it will be a mainstay on my desk in the future!

Pragmatic Version Control Using Git provides a good overview and introduction to using Git for version control. The book covers all the basic concepts of distributed version control systems (DVCS), and provides a hands-on guide to all the basic Git features, and some advanced ones. The book is well written, in general the examples are useful and serve to clearly illustrate the points, and the book provides enough information to get started and exploring on your own. It does not contain a lot of advanced usage of Git, nor is it a Git reference tome, but after reading it, you will have enough knowledge to dig through the ample git documentation and discover all the functionality that is not described in the book.

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