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

• The git community book

• 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.

• git foundation expands on the git parable.

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

• Fernando Perez’s ipython notebook on using git in science

• A good but technical page on git concepts

• git svn crash course: git for those of us used to subversion

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:

• git add

• git branch

• git checkout

• git clone

• git commit

• git config

• git diff

• git log

• git pull

• git push

• git remote

• git status