Preface
A few years ago, while watching an instructional video about how to play the guitar, I heard a great expression. The instructor was demonstrating a complicated strumming pattern. At the correct speed, it looked incredibly fast. He said he’d try to slow it down so we could see what was happening but acknowledged that it would be hard to do so. He said it would be like trying to fall down slowly.
I liked that: fall down slowly.
When Git is demonstrated, it can seem incredibly fast. The fact that it is often demonstrated on the command line adds even more mystery to what exactly is happening with all those commands.
This book is my attempt to slow things down so that you can see and think about every single step that is happening when you ...
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