Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS

I read this as soon as I started working at my new position at Red Hat. (I was hired to be a phone tech, but I prefer programming)

After the positive experience with The Pragmatic Programmer (their first book), I kept an eye these guys. And when we started a new project at work that required us to move from a primitive source code control utility to a full-blown CVS installation, I decided to give their new book, Pragmatic Version Control with CVS, a try. This time, I bought the book direct from the publisher in the PDF+print form. That was really handy, like most geeks, I want to read about the new stuff NOW. I immediately printed out the PDF version and set about learning all I needed to know about CVS while waiting for the regular version to arrive. This book is at exactly the right level for the practitioner. It places the "gee I know nothing about source code control" in easy to skip sections and explains all the required setup and configuration stuff, not in exhaustive detail, but at a level that lets you get started and function without being overwhelmed with the minutia. If you use CVS but don't really understand it, or think you may need something like CVS, get this book. If you don't really "get" source code control and version management, this is still a great book, those first sections really explain the details and complexity that a tool like CVS manages for you. They also have released a version for Subversion, the open-source world's new darling source code management tool. Functionally, it's very similar but has a lot of new features. ( )