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

Tutorial

There are tons of learning material on the Web

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 - Microsofts 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
  • 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 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

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
  • quickhook - a fast, Unix'y, opinionated Git hook runner

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.