Anticipating TortoiseSVN 1.7 Beginner’s Guide
Yesterday, I got an email from Zaid Siddiqui, Packt Publication asking to review their book Tortoise SVN 1.7 Beginner’s Guide by Lesley Harrison. And I agreed instantly being curious and experimental about SVN related stuff and Tortoise SVN being an important part in the whole scheme of things.
Before I start reading any book, I like to anticipate the experience it may offer me by it’s cover, title, and preface. This time of course it is no different and I thought i might as well write it down to check later what I got and what I did not.
By the sound of it’s title, I am really looking forward to using this book as a recommendation to a fresh out of college hired developer on team. I usually get really hard time explaining them why we do certain things with tortoise SVN the way we do. After some experience, they follow commonly used instructions and panic when they see something like a conflict for a file. Some of them actually did a revert without even giving it a second thought out of panic. Since this book is for beginners, I would really like to introduce a rule – look in this book if you have doubts and before taking any action [and before giving me a hard time 
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Second role I would like this book to play in my life as a process specialist is of a my personal desk copy – helping me get instant answers to problems I face in daily operations especially managing various versions and releases for various sizes of projects.
Security is another aspect I would like to get insights in. But that probably would be better covered as server part than tortoise SVN. Anything on that would certainly be delicious.
That much for now. Let’s see what I get after going through this book.
