In This September Digital Issue:

Table of Contents

• Distributed VCS: Understanding the Paradigm Shift
  By Pablo Santos
Distributed Version Control Systems use a different model of check-out, check-in, branching, and merging than traditional, centralized, repository-based solutions. Understanding these differences is the only way to derive the many benefits of distributed version control.


• Getting Started with Git: The Fundamentals
  By Scott Danzig
The distributed SCM system that�s taking the world by storm has its own way of doing things. This tutorial explains how to get started with Git and the basic commands for checking-in changes.


• Git Branches and Workflow
  By Scott Danzig
A further tutorial on handling merges and conflicts, pulling changes, and building productive workflows � all activities that git handles uniquely well.


• MAILBAG
  By you
Recommendations to new programmers generated thoughtful letters.


• NEWS BRIEFS
  By Adrian Bridgwater
Recent news on tools, platforms, frameworks, and the state of the software development world.


• LINKS
  Snapshots of the most interesting items on drdobbs.com including JDK 8 and Scala for C# developers.

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