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Re: Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"

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Post by dsr_ » Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 6:56 PM UTC

wmat wrote: post #27

What a great idea. Will future updates be available as well? Perhaps in a DVCS for easy access? I'd be a happy man if ALL tech books lived in a DVCS. Users could fork it, push updates, fixes, etc. and the author could integrate changes as they see fit. No more searching for errata URLs, simply update your repository. I'd even pay for this. A great example of where this idea could be really useful is with Linux books…

There are these things called wikis... some books are even published that way.

Re: Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"

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Post by nickknw » Fri, Aug 12, 2011, 8:48 PM UTC

kleer0 wrote: post #6

Looks like an interesting book. Were you taken to another page when clicking "Request a book"? For me, the page was reloaded and my answers to questions 1-8 were deselected.

Same thing happening here, I'm in Canada though.

EDIT: Worked when I used IE8 though. I was using FF5 on WinXP before. May just be a coincidence.

Re: Free Printed Copies of "Version Control by Example"

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Post by MostAwesomeDude » Sat, Aug 13, 2011, 2:05 PM UTC

The author donated an entire box (!) of this book to our students. The book itself is well-written, which is surprising considering that it appears aimed at selling people on Veracity. But, to be fair, after comparing Veracity to Perforce, I am sold on Veracity too. :3

Even if you don't care about enterprisy VCS, this book covers three established community-based VCSes in a really great way. Get a copy, put it on your shelf, give it a read.