书名：使用Subversion进行版本控制（第二版，影印版）

作者：C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick 著

国内出版社：中国电力出版社

出版时间：2009年06月

页数：404

书号：978-7-80205-739-5

原版书出版商：O'Reilly Media

 

C. Michael Pilato is a core Subversion developer and the primary maintainer of
ViewVC. He works remotely from his home state of North Carolina as a senior software
engineer on CollabNet’s version control team and has been an active open source developer
for over seven years. Mike is a proud husband and father who loves traveling
and spending quality time with his family. He also enjoys composing and performing
music, and harbors not-so-secret fantasies of rock stardom. Until that all works out,
though, he is content to spend his modicum of private time doing freelance web design,
graphic design, and audio and video production work. Mike has a B.S. in computer
science and mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

 

 

 

Ben Collins-Sussman spent five years with CollabNet as one of the original designers
and founders of the Subversion project. He is currently a technical lead at Google’s
Chicago office, where he manages part of the team responsible for Google Code’s open
source project hosting service. He received his B.S. in mathematics from the University
of Chicago. In his spare time away from his wife and kids (of which there is none), he
enjoys writing musicals and playing bluegrass banjo.

 

 

 

Brian W. Fitzpatrick leads Google’s Chicago engineering efforts. Prior to joining
Google, Brian worked on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS as a senior software engineer
on CollabNet’s version control team, and was also a senior engineer at Apple Computer.
Brian has been an active open source contributor for over 10 years and is a
member of the Apache Software Foundation. Brian has an A.B. in classics from Loyola
University Chicago with a major in Latin, a minor in Greek, and a concentration in fine
arts and ceramics. Despite growing up in New Orleans and working for Silicon Valley
companies for most of his career, he decided years ago that Chicago was his home and
stubbornly refuses to move to California.

 

 

The animals on the cover of Version Control with Subversion, Second Edition, are
hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) or Honu’ea, as they are known in Hawaii.
The hawksbill is a medium-sized turtle weighing up to 270 pounds, with a shell length
of about 3 feet. This sea turtle can be found in tropical reef areas in the Atlantic, Pacific,
and Indian oceans. The hawksbill gets its name from its distinctive beak-like mouth,
and it is also recognized for its beautiful shell coloring, known as “tortoise shell,” which
was exploited by the fashion industry for many years. Hawksbill sea turtles are listed
as an endangered species in Hawaii and are protected under the state law as well as
many other endangered species laws.
Sea turtles are highly migratory and have unique nesting habits. Nesting occurs at night,
typically between May and October. First, the females go ashore and look for small,
isolated beaches where they can lay their eggs. After they choose a site, usually beyond
the tideline, they dig a pit with their flippers and excavate an egg chamber. Sea turtles
only nest every two to three years, but they can lay up to six clutches of eggs in one
breeding season. A single nesting can contain as many as 230 eggs, with the average
being about 130. When the last egg has been laid, the females cover the chamber with
sand and return to the sea, leaving the eggs behind.
The eggs incubate in their sand chambers for two to three months, and then hatching
takes place over several days. At birth, a hatchling is so small it can fit into the palm of
a human hand. The newborn turtles emerge from their chambers in groups at night,
when the sand is cool and there is less threat of predators. They immediately head
toward the sea, guided by the moonlight and the stars’ reflections on the water. But
they face severe challenges during this journey, and the mortality rate is high, as many
of them fall prey to shorebirds and crabs. The turtles that safely reach the ocean disappear
into it and may only venture out again years later.