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Subversion in Action v. Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion

Craig Demyanovich
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Similar in spirit to Jeff Langr's post about your book and the O'Reilly book, how would you differentiate your book from the forthcoming Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion?

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Craig
Jeff Machols
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This book is almost a mirror image of the Oreilly book (from what I can tell). The problem is they are generated from recipe/FAQs. This is great if one of the things you are looking for is in there, but it's a guessing game. Subversion in Action is built around the software development life-cycle and shows how to use this as tool. People use version control to help with development (code/documents/etc), not just for the sake of using it. The other books tend to look at version control as a stand alone tool, which I think does an injustice to it
[ January 18, 2005: Message edited by: Jeff Machols ]

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