A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.
Pull requests on interesting tools/projects/resources are welcome.
There are tons of learning material on the Web
- Flight rules for Git - guide about what to do when things go wrong
- Try Git - learn Git in 15 minutes with pseudo-terminal interface
- Atlassian Git Tutorial - comprehensive tutorial on Git
- Use gitk to understand git - all important Git terms (commit, commit SHA, branch, merge, rebase) explained using gitk
- Learn Version Control with Git - freemium ebook from fournova Software (makers for Tower), associated with paid video course
- Pro Git - free Git book, also available on paper (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- Learn how to use Git - free tutorials and resources to help you learn the basics of Git
- The Git Community Book - book built by dozens of people in the Git community
- Git Pocket Guide - a short O'Reilly book on Git
- Git Real: Code School - paid training course from Code School
- Git Branching - visual way to learn git branching
- Learn Git in a Month of Lunches - tutorial-based book by Manning Publications
- Git Magic - short book about Git
- Git from the bottom up - great series of articles about Git
- Git-It - Interactive Tutorial App that runs on your Desktop!
- Git How To - step by step intro
- Migrating to Git LFS - Use Git LFS on an existing repository to manage large files in a better way
- Explain Git with D3 - Visualized few basic Git concepts using D3.js: commit, branch, checkout, reset, revert, merge, rebase, fetch, pull, push, tag
- Making Sense of Git – A Visual Perspective - Git from a timeline and level perspective and git commands cheatsheet grouped by functionality
- Git & Git-Flow Cheat Sheet
- Git Tips
- Interactive/Contextual/Visual Cheat Sheet
- The 'Git Pretty' Flow-Chart - How to Recover from a Mess
- Software Carpentry: Git Lessons
- The Git Parable - GitHub Cofounder's Narrative-style Intro to Git Concepts
- CodeBasicsHub: Git Video Tutorials
- Intermediate Git - lower-level, more structural explanation of git concepts
- Fork and Pull Request Workflow - Very nicely explained, simple and crisp way of understanding git fork and pull request workflow.
- Git School Dude - It's a YouTube channel with a lot of great git videos. It covers everything from the basics to advanced Git topics.
- A Git Choose Your Own Adventure - I never found a git tutorial I didn't understand while doing it. Just sometimes those tutoars didn't line up very well with my actual work. This git help in the form of a choose your own adventure was a life saver when I was fisrt starting out.
- On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git - fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git
Style guide when you work with git
Git clients are available on every platform, from mainframe to your mobile device
- TortoiseGit - an easy-to-use Git client on Windows. well-integrated with Windows Explorer.
- GitHub Desktop - Git Client by GitHub. works with GitHub and GitHub Enterprise seamlessly
- SourceTree - free (in-beer) GUI client. Windows and Mac only
- Tower - a popular non-free Git GUI client. Mac and Windows
- SmartGit - a commercial comprehensive SCM client with Git, SVN, Mercurial. cross-platform (works on Windows, Mac and Linux)
- RabbitVCS - TortoiseSVN inspired graphic tool for version control systems, with Nautilus and Thunar integration
- gitg - a open-source GTK+ GUI client
- git-cola - a cross-platform Git GUI client
- SGit - Git client for Android 4.x
- Ungit - The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
- GitKraken - a cross Git client for Windows, Mac & Linux. Electron based. Free for non-commercial use and paid Pro version is available.
- GitUp - a clean, minimal Git client. Mac only.
- GitExtensions - a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2010-2015 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool.
- WorkingCopy - a powerful Git client for iOS. Free with in-app purchase to unlock the ability to push commits.
- Git Add-ons - Enhance the basic
gitCLI - Fork - An awesome and free git client for macOS and Windows
People have plenty of options to host their source code
- GitHub - the de-facto git hosting service. Perfect integration with most external services.
- Awesome GitHub - Resources & Learning for GitHub
- BitBucket - well-known for its free private repository (5 user max).
- Kiln - paid Git repository hosting service
- GitLab.com - a free Git repository hosting service served by GitLab EE. Unlimited repositories and private collaborators
- AWS CodeCommit - a SaaS service provided by Amazon Web Service on high availability infrastructure
- Deveo - a paid repository hosting service with support for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, WebDAV
Or you can host the code yourselves
- Gitolite - a simple with fine-grained access control
- GitHub Enterprise - self-hosted solution provided from GitHub
- Bitbucket Server - self-hosted refrom Atlassian. Good integration with JIRA and other Atlassian products
- GitLab CE/EE - a popular open-source Git (CE) with paid support option (EE).
- Upsource - recent offer from Jetbrains, a famous developer-oriented software company. Code repository hosting feature pending. Free for 10 users. Good integration with YouTrack and TeamCity
- GitBucket - a GitHub clone powered by Scala.
- Gogs - a self-hosted Git Service written in Go.
- Gitea - a community managed fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go.
- GitBlit - Pure Java Stack for managing, view, and serving Git repositories.
- Apache Allura - an open source implementation of project hosting platform
- Phabricator - an integrated set of powerful tools to help companies build higher quality software
- RhodeCode CE/EE - a platform delivering enterprise source code management
Inexpensive branching allows people adopt workflows other than the classic centralilzed workflow
- Pro Git - Distributed Workflows
- Atlassian Git Tutorial - Comparing Workflows
- Gitflow - the most well-known Git workflow model
- GitHub flow - a simple branching model with a single master
- GitLab flow
- Git DMZ Flow
- Aoneflow - an interesting branch model which delays the final merge to production branch, adopted by Alibaba. more article (in Chinese text) at 1, 2
Git provide hooks at commit/push phrase, allowing integration with and code quality checking tool and Continuous Integration (CI)
- pre-commit - a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks from Yelp. Extensive support for multiple programming language.
- Overcommit - a extendable Git hook manager written with Ruby.
- git-hooks - tool to manage project, user, and global Git hooks
- quickhook - a fast, Unix'y, opinionated Git hook runner
- husky - Git hooks for Node.js, manage your hooks from your package.json
- more on https://githooks.com/
Various tools for daily operations
- awesome-git-addons - lists more than 20 git addons including all available commands
- myrepos - a tool to manage multiple version control repositories
- mu-repo - a tool to help in dealing with multiple git repositories
- gr - a tool for managing multiple git repositories
- BFG Repo-Cleaner - a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history
- GitIgnore Collection - collection of gitignore files for various programming language
- etckeeper - a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git repository
- git-extras – git utilities adding useful git commands.
- git-extra-commands - Another collection of useful git commands.
- git-follow - a tool for following lifetime changes of a file throughout the history of a Git repository.
- Gitrob - a command line tool to find sensitive information lingering in publicly available files on GitHub
- gitFS - a FUSE file system that fully integrates with git
- Gitless - an experimental version of Git that changes some of Git's underlying concepts
- ghq — Organization for remote repositories
- bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users
- conventional-changelog - a set of tools for parsing conventional commit messages from git histories
- release-it - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.
Git is designed for source control management. but people extend the idea and push version control to everywhere
- Git Large File Storage - practical solution for versioning large files. supported by GitHub
- Git Virtual File System or GVFS - solution for managing very large Git repository while maintaining speed and efficiency of most operations. in developement by Microsoft.
- git-annex - allow managing large binaries among machines, as if operation a normal git repository. possible to creates a synchronised folder with git-annex assistant.