Additional Git Resources#
Tutorials and summaries#
github help has an excellent series of how-to guides.
learn.github has an excellent series of tutorials
The pro git book is a good in-depth book on git.
A git cheat sheet is a page giving summaries of common commands.
The git user manual
The git tutorial
git ready - a nice series of tutorials
git casts - video snippets giving git how-tos.
git magic - extended introduction with intermediate detail
The git parable is an easy read explaining the concepts behind git.
Our own git foundation expands on the git parable.
Fernando Perez’ git page - Fernando’s git page - many links and tips
A good but technical page on git concepts
git svn crash course: git for those of us used to subversion
Advanced git workflow#
There are many ways of working with git; here are some posts on the rules of thumb that other projects have come up with:
Linus Torvalds on git management
Linus Torvalds on linux git workflow . Summary; use the git tools to make the history of your edits as clean as possible; merge from upstream edits as little as possible in branches where you are doing active development.
Manual pages online#
You can get these on your own machine with (e.g) git help push
or
(same thing) git push --help
, but, for convenience, here are the
online manual pages for some common commands: