--- product_id: 10541088 title: "Pro Git" price: "651 Lei" currency: RON in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.ro/products/10541088-pro-git store_origin: RO region: Romania --- # Pro Git **Price:** 651 Lei **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Pro Git - **How much does it cost?** 651 Lei with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ro](https://www.desertcart.ro/products/10541088-pro-git) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Pro Git (Second Edition) is your fully-updated guide to Git and its usage in the modern world. Git has come a long way since it was first developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It has taken the open source world by storm since its inception in 2005, and this book teaches you how to use it like a pro. Effective and well-implemented version control is a necessity for successful web projects, whether large or small. With this book you’ll learn how to master the world of distributed version workflow, use the distributed features of Git to the full, and extend Git to meet your every need. Written by Git pros Scott Chacon and Ben Straub , Pro Git (Second Edition) builds on the hugely successful first edition, and is now fully updated for Git version 2.0, as well as including an indispensable chapter on GitHub. It’s the best book for all your Git needs. Review: Easy Read, Very Lucid, Thorough, To-the-Point -- BUT ... Get the first edition, instead ! - I stand by my original comments, but having purchased BOTH the first and second editions, I would recommend getting the first edition, instead. The first edition has the best index. Unfortunately the second addition has a very weak index, which makes it difficult to use as a reference. You won't miss the second edition (which I have also purchased). It has 175 more pages, but I haven't found anything in it that I've needed and haven't found in this first edition (the diagrams are larger, but that doesn't contribute to that many more pages). The first edition includes things like "Cherry Picking", "Sub-networking", "External Tools", and "Hooks". -- My Original Review -- Easy read, very lucid, thorough, and to-the-point. What more could I ask? The first edition is the best book on Git that I have found, and I've purchased a LOT of them. I've read several tutorials on git and have found none as clear and to-the-point as Scott Chacon's "Pro Git". I'm a very experienced Subversion user and administrator; and feel that, in two partial days I understand and can do everything in git that I've done in svn. In addition, Scott Chacon avoids all of the inaccurate put-downs of Subversion that are so prevalent in the other Git books -- a shame, since Subversion has similar lightweight branching, copying, tagging as git, and a fully editable off-line local workspace (admittedly, unlike many of the earlier server-based tools, such as CVS, SCCS, RCS, ClearCase, VSS, TFS, etc.). Git has the advantage over Subversion of being a distributed system for local/personal projects and for the ability to integrate local repository operations into a remote repository almost seamlessly. I'm not sold on the value of git's history-cleanup operations that everyone seems to love -- they just seem to be an opportunity for users to create problems unnecessarily that are irrecoverable, or difficult to recover from. However, I'm not yet a git guru, so I'll withhold judgement on that. Again, Scott Chacon avoid's the proselytizing and sticks to teaching the functionality and benefits of git; which I appreciate -- especially compared with the other git references I've read. Review: An excellent read for the inspired - An excellent read for the inspired! It's very easy to find help online for simple 'git' tasks. It's even easy to help help online to build a nice 'git' workflow. This book is not for that purpose... This book is an excellent dive into how git works under the hood. It's so much more than a how-to internet guide. It seeks to impart real knowledge. It gave me the knowledge I needed to solve some issues that the internet guides only made worse. It gave me the knowledge I needed to understand the core of the issues, work back through them carefully and prevent them from ever happening again. If you've worked with a forking model where rebasing happens often you can understand how git can be a pain. This book has given me so many reasons to hold git high above all other version control systems. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #203,349 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #25 in Linux & UNIX Administration (Books) #38 in Linux Networking & System Administration #151 in Software Development (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,054 Reviews | ## Images ![Pro Git - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ueFgwHyIL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy Read, Very Lucid, Thorough, To-the-Point -- BUT ... Get the first edition, instead ! *by W***N on April 21, 2016* I stand by my original comments, but having purchased BOTH the first and second editions, I would recommend getting the first edition, instead. The first edition has the best index. Unfortunately the second addition has a very weak index, which makes it difficult to use as a reference. You won't miss the second edition (which I have also purchased). It has 175 more pages, but I haven't found anything in it that I've needed and haven't found in this first edition (the diagrams are larger, but that doesn't contribute to that many more pages). The first edition includes things like "Cherry Picking", "Sub-networking", "External Tools", and "Hooks". -- My Original Review -- Easy read, very lucid, thorough, and to-the-point. What more could I ask? The first edition is the best book on Git that I have found, and I've purchased a LOT of them. I've read several tutorials on git and have found none as clear and to-the-point as Scott Chacon's "Pro Git". I'm a very experienced Subversion user and administrator; and feel that, in two partial days I understand and can do everything in git that I've done in svn. In addition, Scott Chacon avoids all of the inaccurate put-downs of Subversion that are so prevalent in the other Git books -- a shame, since Subversion has similar lightweight branching, copying, tagging as git, and a fully editable off-line local workspace (admittedly, unlike many of the earlier server-based tools, such as CVS, SCCS, RCS, ClearCase, VSS, TFS, etc.). Git has the advantage over Subversion of being a distributed system for local/personal projects and for the ability to integrate local repository operations into a remote repository almost seamlessly. I'm not sold on the value of git's history-cleanup operations that everyone seems to love -- they just seem to be an opportunity for users to create problems unnecessarily that are irrecoverable, or difficult to recover from. However, I'm not yet a git guru, so I'll withhold judgement on that. Again, Scott Chacon avoid's the proselytizing and sticks to teaching the functionality and benefits of git; which I appreciate -- especially compared with the other git references I've read. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An excellent read for the inspired *by D***D on January 14, 2018* An excellent read for the inspired! It's very easy to find help online for simple 'git' tasks. It's even easy to help help online to build a nice 'git' workflow. This book is not for that purpose... This book is an excellent dive into how git works under the hood. It's so much more than a how-to internet guide. It seeks to impart real knowledge. It gave me the knowledge I needed to solve some issues that the internet guides only made worse. It gave me the knowledge I needed to understand the core of the issues, work back through them carefully and prevent them from ever happening again. If you've worked with a forking model where rebasing happens often you can understand how git can be a pain. This book has given me so many reasons to hold git high above all other version control systems. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Amazingly Informative Read *by G***S on February 10, 2019* Before I begin, an introduction is in order, to provide a little context. I'm a Windows .NET developer, and have been using Git for the past eight years or so. I use it in both my day job (the projects we work on are all source controlled in Git these days), but also in my writing business, to source control the Scrivener projects for my books. It's a fantastic tool for version controlling any kind of file you can think of. Although I am comfortable with various graphical wrappers, I've also always prefered the Git Bash interface, perhaps because I've always liked Bash's simplicity and elegance, having played around with various flavours of Linux over the years. With that out of the way, what did I think of this book? I thought I was pretty knowledgable about Git before. I was wrong. This book is a fantastic reference, and it showed me that the things I was using Git for barely constitute 10% of everything it's capable of. It's not like I've been doing this wrong necessarily; it's just that there are so many better ways to achieve many of the things I've been trying to do. For example, I knew about rebasing, but I've always been a bit afraid of it. I'm going to be using it more from now on (although as the book points out, I'm going to avoid rebasing anything I've already pushed up). I also can't tell you how many times I've made a commit, forgot to add a file, and then had to make a second commit immediately afterwards. I'll be using git commit --amend more often now. Finally, I can't wait for an excuse to use git bisect to find the exact commit where something stopped working! Another thing I never really understood is why you would use fetch and not pull. Although I now understand the difference much more clearly, I'm still going to keep using pull (perhaps with --rebase, though), since I don't remember ever being in a situation where I had more than one remote for my repository. This book is staying on my e-reader, and I'll be referring back to it constantly. On the downside, the formatting of the Kindle Edition isn't great. I like to read white text on a black background because of my visual disability--I need the contrast--but for some reason, clickable URLs in this book (and there are many) are coloured in dark orange. Also, the code samples are a bit difficult to follow at times, because they're indented and don't flow very well on the large font size I tend to use. Speaking of code samples, all git commands embedded in the narrative are formatted in fixed-pitch font (which is a good thing), but that formatting is inconsistent, so you sometimes see things which you think are supposed to be part of the command, but they're actually part of the narrative, or vice versa. And the index at the end isn't linked, which makes it completely useless since there's no way to click on a term to go directly to that chapter. Other than that, it's an entertaining and informative read. I nodded and smiled a few times, as the authors describe some pain I've already been through, but I stared at the screen and went "Wow! I never knew that." many more times that that. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.ro/products/10541088-pro-git](https://www.desertcart.ro/products/10541088-pro-git) --- *Product available on Desertcart Romania* *Store origin: RO* *Last updated: 2026-05-28*