About the Technical Reviewer

SHAWN PEARCE is the second in command of the Git project. He has been actively involved in the project since early 2006, contributing more than 1,300 changes in three years. Shawn is the author of git-gui, a Tk based graphical interface shipped with Git; and git-fast-import, a stream-based import system often used for converting projects to Git. In addition, Shawn's opinion, backed by his code, has influenced many key design decisions that form the modern Git implementation.

In early 2006, Shawn founded the JGit project, creating a 100% pure Java reimplementation of the Git version control system. The JGit library can often be found in Java-based products that interact with Git, including Git plugins for the popular Eclipse and NetBeans IDEs; the Hudson CI server; Apache Maven; and Gerrit Code Review, a peer code-review system specially designed for Git. Today he continues to develop and maintain JGit, EGit (the Eclipse plug-in based on top of it), and Gerrit Code Review.