Tutorials and summaries#

• github help has an excellent series of how-to guides.

• learn.github has an excellent series of tutorials

• Thepro git book is a good in-depth book on git.

• Agit cheat sheet is a page giving summaries of common commands.

• Thegit user manual

• Thegit tutorial

• Thegit community book

• git ready - a nice series of tutorials

• git casts - video snippets giving git how-tos.

• git magic - extended introduction with intermediate detail

• Thegit parable is an easy read explaining the concepts behind git.

• Our owngit foundation expands on thegit parable.

• Fernando Perez’ git page -Fernando’s git page - many links and tips

• A good but technical page ongit concepts

• git svn crash course:git for those of us used tosubversion

Advanced git workflow#

There are many ways of working withgit; here are some posts on therules of thumb that other projects have come up with:

• Linus Torvalds ongit management

• Linus Torvalds onlinux git workflow . Summary; use the git toolsto make the history of your edits as clean as possible; merge fromupstream edits as little as possible in branches where you are doingactive development.

Manual pages online#

You can get these on your own machine with (e.g)githelppush or(same thing)gitpush--help, but, for convenience, here are theonline manual pages for some common commands:

• git add

• git branch

• git checkout

• git clone

• git commit

• git config

• git diff

• git log

• git pull

• git push

• git remote

• git status