Acknowledgments

There are many people without whom this book wouldn’t be a reality. First, I’d like to thank Dan Maharry, my development editor at Manning, who kept me motivated and provided excellent feedback that has resulted in a far better book than I could have created on my own. Additionally, many others who work at and with Manning have helped me along the way, particularly Jay Bryant, Michael Stephens, Bert Bates, Benjamin Berg, Glenn Burnside, Tiffany Taylor, and Ozren Harlovic.

Thanks to Scott Chacon for his great book Pro Git, which helped me while I was learning Git, and for agreeing to write the foreword.

Thanks to Karsten Strøbæk for his technical proofread of the manuscript shortly before it went into production, to Gerd Koenig for his help, and to the following reviewers who provided invaluable feedback: Alan Lenton, Art Bergquist, Chris Couchoud, Clare Macrae, Corey Gallon, Gregor Zurowski, Jean-Pol Landrain, John Guthrie, Ken Fricklas, Nathan Davies, Patrick Toohey, Rick Umali, Tarin Gamberini, and Zarko Jovicic.

Thanks to Linus Torvalds, without whom this wonderful version control system would not exist, and to Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett for starting GitHub, without which Git wouldn’t have nearly the widespread usage it does today. Also thanks to them for hiring me!

Finally, I’d like to thank my wife Lindsay for putting up with my occasional whining about writing this book and for her understanding about how much time I had to spend on it.