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This one is a bit short, but packed with useful information on how to use git to maintain a local tree that matches exactly what Linus and the other core Linux kernel developers are working on.

What is git?

Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency;
it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.

Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or BitKeeper in the proprietary world). Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
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Another hand-retouched conversion from the original First Edition to Plucker format.. This was not simply a conversion of the raw HTML, this was updated in hundreds of places by hand to optimize it for use in Plucker’s viewer.

This book is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. Use Ruby, and you’ll write better code, be more productive, and enjoy programming more.
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The various versions of the PHP documentation can be found here, in 21 languages.

These were created with the Palm Font Converter written by Alexander R. Pruss. You can read more about how to convert fonts for use with Plucker in the Plucker news section.
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Below are some screenshots of the Version Control with Subversion book (v1.0 and v1.1) converted to Plucker format. The full versions of these documents are provided below, for version 1.0 and version 1.1 of Subversion.
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Below are some screenshots of the Creating XPCOM Components book converted to Plucker format. With the author’s permission, I am making this available here in a handheld format for the community to enjoy (thanks go to Doug Turner for the permission, thanks Doug!).

The original material was provided in a fairly-clean HTML format. Some additional adjustments had to be made to the HTML to correct it for validation. Two versions of this converted work are available; one in high-resolution format, and one in low-resolution format.

c896c7b9d362339bc9513007fd0d0940  Creating_XPCOM_Components_hires.pdb

4ad2a3e9f68df758a5cf005b16561496  Creating_XPCOM_Components_lores.pdb

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