Preface

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In this world of information overload I set out on a journey to beat the god of chaos. This book is a first in a series of quests to accomplish that goal. My name is Neville Andrade. I work as a risk manager in the credit stress testing department in a bank. In my role my team work with a lot of software code written in languages like SAS, R and Python. The demon of chaos pokes his head into my kingdom in the form of

• Code being sent thru emails

• Code being saved in obscure locations.

• Wrong code being used in production because of whatever reasons

Chaos loves this. He knows we are fallible human beings. He knows we forget how diligent we tend to think of ourselves to be. He knows it gets worse as long as he is allowed in the kingdom. And he loves every minute of it with chimichangas of course. This book is thus an attempt to beat him. This book explains how to use the Git software. The aim is to make Git accessible to non computer science people.

The god of chaos

Who this book is for?

This book is primarily meant to support beginners and seasoned users in the CRM credit stress testing team as a ready reference manual. Typical workflows recognizable to members of the team will be shown thru several sections in the book. Even then, this book has sections written in a cookbook fashion and could help answer questions that a user from any department would have.

What this book is not about?

This is not meant to be a biblical tome of all things git. I try to discuss issues for the many use cases me and my team face in our day to day. For issues which you don't see a solution mentioned give me a shout on the email id's below. I will try to incorporate your use case into the book time permitting.

Book structure

As a user manual I choose a structure where I first detail the use case, followed with the commands and some examples of how to use these commands.

How can you contact me?

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