git-resources.md

Git Tutorials and Resources

Resource Pages

• Understanding Git
  http://www.queness.com/post/16139/understanding-git
  A collection of links to articles, tutorials, cheat sheets, and clients

• 7 Useful Git Tips for Beginners
  http://sixrevisions.com/web-development/git-tips/
  High-level directions for learning Git, including links to many tutorials

Tutorials

• Atlassian Git Tutorials
  https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials
  An excellent collection of tutorials, from basics to advanced topics. Very well written and easy to read.

• Git Concepts Simplified
  http://gitolite.com/gcs.html
  An HTML slideshow that walks through Git's core concepts, with diagrams.

• Learn Version Control with Git
  https://www.git-tower.com/learn/git/ebook/command-line/introduction
  A complete introduction to using Git that assumes no prior knowledge

• Git from the Bottom Up
  https://jwiegley.github.io/git-from-the-bottom-up/
  Explains Git by describing the internal data structures and how they work. More technical than other tutorials, but understanding the way Git handles data can really make understanding the commands easier.

• Conversational Git
  http://blog.anvard.org/conversational-git/
  An easy-to-read, informal approach to learning Git

• Think like a Git
  http://think-like-a-git.net/
  A tutorial for "advanced beginners" who know the basic commands, but want to better understand Git's concepts

• Git from the Inside Out
  https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside-out
  An explanation of how Git works, by describing the internal data structures and the graph that they form.

• Git for Humans
  https://speakerdeck.com/alicebartlett/git-for-humans
  A slideshow introducing Git concepts without complex terminology

• Getting Git
  https://gettinggit.com/
  A paid video tutorial series that covers Git commands in detail, as well as everyday scenarios you might encounter while using Git

• Learn Enough Git to Be Dangerous
  https://www.learnenough.com/git-tutorial
  A tutorial that teaches practical use of Git basics, Github, and Git workflows.

• Git Magic
  https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/
  An extensive Git tutorial that teaches usage instructions first, and works its way up to advanced Git techniques and concepts.

• Git Beyond the Basics
  http://blog.bloomca.me/2017/11/17/git-beyond-the-basics.html
  A good tutorial that explains intermediate concepts like merging, rebasing, cherry-picking, and cleaning pull requests

Tips and Useful Info

• How to Write a Git Commit Message
  http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/
  Great advice for how to write a succinct, informative, and useful commit message.

• Advance Git
  https://medium.com/@jstats/advance-git-dfe557bdbe59
  Gives advice for good commit messages, and describes the options and usage for several advanced Git commands (add --patch, rebase, reflog, and more).

• 19 Tips for Everyday Git Use
  http://www.alexkras.com/19-git-tips-for-everyday-use
  A variety of practical commands for different scenarios.

• Git Tips
  https://github.com/git-tips/tips
  A large collection of Git tips and tricks.

• Digit
  https://github.com/optionfactory/digit
  A tool to visualize the contents of a Git repo as an aid to learning

• Advanced Git Advice
  https://medium.com/@zlobin/advanced-git-advice-27087a7fbb29
  A variety of useful tips and commands.

• A Note about Git Commit Messages
  http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html
  Some quick explanations of how to format Git commit messages, and commands where message formatting matters

• Git Commit Good Practices
  https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/GitCommitMessages
  A number of good practices to follow when making commits and writing commit messages

• Life-Saving Git Tips
  https://www.cuttlesoft.com/life-saving-git-tips/
  A variety of useful tips, including use of cherry-picking, local pulling and testing, and use of aliases to simplify tasks

• Git Flight Rules
  https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules
  A guide for Git users about what to do when things go wrong. Covers topics like editing commits, staging and unstaging files, fixing branches, rebasing/merging, and much more.

• Advanced Git Commands You Will Actually Use
  https://stosb.com/blog/advanced-git-commands-you-will-actually-use/
  Describes a wide variety of useful commands, such as ways to refer to commits, searching commit logs, manipulating history, and much more.

Specific Techniques

• Git's Patch Mode All the Way
  https://blog.petrzemek.net/2016/07/10/git-patch-mode-all-the-way/
  Shows how to use Git's ability to selectively pick and choose chunks of code as part of various actions

• Git: Undoing changes and rewriting history
  http://slides.com/lilianakastilio/github-4#/
  A slideshow discussing various ways to change commit history

• Beginner's guide to git rebasing and squashing
  https://shinglyu.github.io/web/2016/11/08/servo-rebase-and-squash-guide.html
  A tutorial on rebasing and squashing commits to change past history.

• Git Rebasing and Clean Pull Requests
  https://www.jungledisk.com/blog/2016/11/21/git-rebasing-and-clean-prs/
  Some best practices for cleaning up branches and producing readable commits.

• A closer look at git rebase
  https://dev.to/gonedark/a-closer-look-at-git-rebase
  An explanation of what "rebasing" is, with some helpful graphics

• Visualize Merge History with git log --graph, --first-parent, and --no-merges
  https://redfin.engineering/visualize-merge-history-with-git-log-graph-first-parent-and-no-merges-c6a9b5ff109c
  Describes issues with using git log to visualize history, and some arguments that can be used to give a potentially better picture of what's actually happened.

• How to undo (almost) anything with Git
  https://github.com/blog/2019-how-to-undo-almost-anything-with-git
  Instructions for undoing and redoing changes in various scenarios.

• Undoing in Git
  https://blog.tratif.com/2018/01/04/undoing-in-git/
  A summary of the most common ways for undoing things in Git, including bringing back removed commits.

• Beginner's Guide to Interactive Rebasing
  https://hackernoon.com/beginners-guide-to-interactive-rebasing-346a3f9c3a6d
  An excellent walkthrough of how to use interactive rebasing for rewriting commit history by editing, deleting, and combining commits

E-Books

• Pro Git
  https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
  An in-depth online reference to all aspects of Git

• Git Internals
  https://github.com/pluralsight/git-internals-pdf
  A free PDF that digs deep into Git's data structures and behavior

Workflows

• Git Workflows
  http://documentup.com/skwp/git-workflows-book
  Covers ways to increase productivity, create cleaner commit history, and improve code reviews

• Understanding the Git Workflow
  https://sandofsky.com/blog/git-workflow.html
  Looks at how to properly handle branches and local history vs public history

• A Successful Git Branching Model
  http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
  Describes a widely used multi-branch approach to managing development and release processes

Cheat Sheets

• A Visual Git Reference
  http://marklodato.github.io/visual-git-guide/index-en.html
  Describes several common Git commands, with diagrams to explain what each one does

• Tower - Git Cheat Sheet
  https://www.git-tower.com/blog/git-cheat-sheet/
  A quick reference PDF listing some common commands

• Interactive Git Cheat Sheet
  http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html
  A clickable page that shows how various commands move data between different parts of Git's storage (working copy, index, local repo, remote repo)

• giteveryday
  https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/giteveryday.html
  A useful minimum set of commands for Everyday Git. Commands grouped by usefulness to different categories of users.

• Git Getting Started Cheat Sheet
  https://gist.github.com/akras14/3d242d80af8388ebca60
  Another useful list of commands with explanations

Desktop GUI Clients

• SourceTree (Win, Mac; free)
  https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/
  A solid Git client, with a good variety of features. Includes UI for interactive rebase, which makes that task much easier to do. Note that a recent release (1.8 for Windows, 2.2 for Mac) drastically changed the UI appearance, added required accounts, has had a number of performance issues, and is generally seen as a step backwards. You may want to download the earlier versions instead (1.6.25 for Windows, 2.1 for Mac ).

• Git Extensions (Win; free)
  http://gitextensions.github.io/
  A Windows client with Windows Explorer and Visual Studio integration

• Git Tower (Mac, Win; commercial)
  https://www.git-tower.com/
  A well-designed commercial Git client for Mac and Windows

• SmartGit (Win, Mac, Linux; commercial)
  http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/
  A cross-platform Git client aimed at professionals

• GitKraken (Win, Mac, Linux; semi-commercial)
  http://www.gitkraken.com/
  A cross-platform Git client