My Review of McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Advanced Git

Feb 7, 2012 in REVIEWS
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    McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Advanced Git
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  <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920024774.do" style="display: none;" class="url fn"><span class="fn">McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Advanced Git</span></a></div> 
  
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    <strong class="summary">Great demonstration of advanced Git</strong>
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    By <strong>Jim Schubert</strong> from <strong>Richmond, VA</strong> on <strong><abbr title="201226T1200-0800" class="dtreviewed" style="border: none; text-decoration: none;">2/6/2012</abbr></strong>
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    <span class="rating">5</span>out of 5
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    <strong>Pros: </strong>Accurate, Easy to understand, Concise, Helpful examples
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    <strong>Best Uses: </strong>Novice, Student, Expert, Intermediate
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    <strong>Describe Yourself: </strong>Sys Admin, Maker, Developer, Educator, Designer
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    At just under 4 hours long, this video course packs in a lot of content. Each video is about 30 minutes long, so I didn&#8217;t have to watch it all in one sitting.<br xmlns:pr="xalan://com.pufferfish.core.beans.xmlbuilders.xsl.Functions" /><br />The structure of the demonstration is extremely useful because Tim and Matthew ask and answer questions conversationally while showing a split-view Git workspace. I think the hardest thing for some people to grasp in general about git is what &#8216;distributed&#8217; means. Although the presenters are working from the same machine, the setup is done in a way to demonstrate this distributed nature.
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    I&#8217;ve been using git for a while, but I have learned a lot from these videos. I&#8217;ve only somewhat dug into the files inside the .git directory on my own because I was afraid to &#8216;ruin&#8217; my repository. This course does a great job of alleviating a lot of those concerns by explaining the organizational structure of the .git contents.
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    If you&#8217;re like me, you&#8217;ll probably add quite a few of the concepts you learn from these videos to your repositories immediately after each video.
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