Awesome Git

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

Table of Contents

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

Tutorial

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• Try Git
• Atlassian Git Tutorial
• 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
• codeschool - paid training course from Code School

Client

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• 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. 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 -

Repository Hosting

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• GitHub the de-fact 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

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• 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. 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.
• Gitorious acquired by GitLab

Workflow

Inexpensive branching allow people

• Gitflow -
• GitHub flow - a simple branching model with a master
• HubFlow -
• GitLab flow -

Submodule management

Hook management

Git provide hooks at commit/push phrase, allowing integration with and code quality checking tool and Continuous Integration (CI)

• git-hooks
• pre-commit - git hooks manager from Yelp. Extensive support for multiple programming language.
• Overcommit - A .

Tools

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• 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

Extensions

Git (SCM). However it

• Git Large File Storage practical solution for versioning large files. Supported by GitHub
• git-annex - .