add appendices

Author: schacon

book/introduction.asc

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 == Introduction
 
 You’re about to spend several hours of your life reading about Git. Let’s take a minute to explain
-what we have in store for you. Here is a quick summary of the nine chapters of this book.
+what we have in store for you. Here is a quick summary of the ten chapters and three appendices of this book.
 
 In *Chapter 1*, we’re going to cover Version Control Systems (VCSs) and Git basics—no
 technical stuff, just what Git is, why it came about in a land full of VCSs, what sets it apart, and
@@ -53,4 +53,17 @@ and more. Throughout the book, we will refer to sections of this chapter in case
 diving deep at that point; but if you are like me and want to dive into the technical details, you
 may want to read Chapter 10 first. We leave that up to you.
 
+In *Appendix A* we look at a number of examples of using Git in various specific environments. We cover
+a number of different GUIs and IDE programming enviornments that you may want to use Git in and what
+is available for you. If you're interested in an overview of using Git in your shell, in Visual Studio
+or Eclipse, take a look here.
+
+In *Appendix B* we explore scripting and extending Git through tools like libgit2 and JGit. If you're
+interested in writing complex and fast custom tools and need low level Git access, this is where you can
+see what that landscape looks like.
+
+Finally in *Appendix C* we go through all the major Git commands one at a time and review where in the book
+we covered them and what we did with them. If you want to know where in the book we used any specific Git
+command you can look that up here.
+
 Let’s get started.