Awesome Git

A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.

Contributing

Pull requests on interesting tools/projects/resources are welcome.

Table of Contents

• Awesome Git
  • Tutorial
  • Client
  • Repository Hosting
  • Self-Hosted Repository
  • Workflow
  • Hook management
  • Tools
  • Extensions

Tutorial

There are tons of learning material on the Web

• Try Git - learn Git in 15 minutes with pseudo-terminal interface
• Atlassian Git Tutorial - comprehensive tutorial on Git
• Learn Version Control with Git - freemium ebook from fournova Software (makers for Tower), associated with paid video course
• Pro Git - free Git book (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
• 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

Client

Git clients are available on every platform, from mainframe to your mobile device

• TortoiseGit - an easy-to-use Git client on Windows. well-intrgrated 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 only
• 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.

Repository Hosting

People have plenty of options to host their source code

• GitHub - the de-facto git hosting service. Perfect integration with most external services.
• BitBucket - well-known for its free private repository (5 user max).
• CodePlex - Microsoft’s free open source code hosting service with many ASP/C# OSS projects
• 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

Self-Hosted Repository

Or you can host the code yourselves

• Gitolite - a simple with fine-grained access control
• GitHub Enterprise - self-hosted solution provided from GitHub
• Stash - 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 famos 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.
• GitBlit Pure Java Stack for managing, view, and serving Git repositories.

Workflow

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

Hook management

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

Tools

Various tools for daily operations

• myrepos - a tool to manage multiple version control 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-extra – git utilities adding useful git commands.

Extensions

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-annex - allow managing large binaries among machines, as if operation a normal git repository. possible to creates a synchronised folder with git-annex assistant.