Contents

About the Authors

About the Technical Reviewer

About the Cover Image Artist

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: Are You Set Up? Creating a Basic Development Environment

Microsoft Windows

Getting the package

Getting your install on

Mac

Getting the package

Setting up

MAMP Pro

Ubuntu

Package manager

Terminal method

Summary

Chapter 2: In the Beginning There Were Just Files

What is version control?

The earlier version control solutions

SCCS

RCS

PVCS

CVS

ClearCase

VSS

Perforce

AccuRev

BitKeeper

Summary

Chapter 3: Meet the Current Players in the Game: SVN, Git, and Mercurial

The differences between then and now

An introduction to the lead players: SVN, Git, and Mercurial

What's the difference between them and why should I care?

Apache ...

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