DESCRIPTION This tutorial explains how to import a new project into Git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers. If you are instead primarily interested in using Git to fetch a project, …

With Git, every time you commit, or save the state of your project, Git basically takes a picture of what all your files look like at that moment and stores a reference to that snapshot.

Repositories and Branches and Exploring Git history explain how to fetch and study a project using git— read these chapters to learn how to build and test a particular version of a software project, search …

We’ll also show you how to set up Git to ignore certain files and file patterns, how to undo mistakes quickly and easily, how to browse the history of your project and view changes between commits, …

This book was written using Git version 2. Since Git is quite excellent at preserving backwards compatibility, any recent version should work just fine. Though most of the commands we use should …

Now that you have Git on your system, you’ll want to do a few things to customize your Git environment. You should have to do these things only once on any given computer; they’ll stick around between …

For this book, we will be using Git on the command line. For one, the command line is the only place you can run all Git commands — most of the GUIs implement only a partial subset of Git functionality for …

Now What? Now that you have downloaded Git, it's time to start using it. Read the Book Dive into the Pro Git book and learn at your own pace. Download a GUI Several free and commercial GUI tools …

Because configuration and hooks are not copied using git clone, it is generally safe to clone remote repositories with untrusted content, inspect them with git log, and so on.

Clones a repository into a newly created directory, creates remote-tracking branches for each branch in the cloned repository (visible using git branch --remotes), and creates and checks out an initial …