Scott Chacon

Scott Chacon
GitHubber, GitHub

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Scott Chacon is a Git evangelist and developer working at GitHub.com. He is the author of the Pro Git book by Apress (progit.org), the Git Internals Peepcode PDF as well as the maintainer of the Git homepage (git-scm.com) and the Git Community Book. Scott has presented at LinuxConf.au, OSCON, RuPy, Symfony Live, Ruby Kaigi, RailsConf, RubyConf, Scotland on Rails and a number of local groups and has done corporate training on Git across the country.

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Git 101 Tutorial
Tools & Techniques
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: git, vcs, scm, github, version_control
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Scott Chacon (GitHub)
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Git is a new distributed version control system that is fast, flexible, works offline and supports powerful local branching and easy merging that encourages non-linear workflows and makes developers far more productive and efficient. This tutorial will introduce you to Git, rid you of your SVN sins, and teach you how to become more efficient and productive as a programmer. Read more.
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