Ebook: Learning Git ER

Learn the basics of Git in a simple, visual, and tangible manner. With this practical book, author Anna Skoulikari helps you build a mental model of how Git version control works so that you can get the most out of this powerful tool. Whether you're a developer, data professional, technical writer, designer, or product manager, you'll learn the basics of Git in a straightforward and approachable way.

Learning Git uses storytelling principles not only to place lessons in a familiar context, but also to make the information more memorable. By introducing information in an incremental manner, this book makes all the content accessible so you don't get bogged down with unknown terms or concepts. This guide is ideal whether you're working on a shared document or managing your own version control project.

This book is like a self-paced workshop. At the start of the book, you will be introduced to two Git projects - the rainbow project and the example book project. The rainbow project is going to be the hand-on project we will work on throughout the entire book. In this project, we will list the colors of the rainbow as well as some colors not in the rainbow. In using Git to version control this project, we will learn the basics of how Git works. This is not meant to be a realistic example of a project version controlled by Git. Instead it is meant to be a simplified project that will allow you to focus on learning the basics of Git rather than get bogged down in the details of building something complicated.