Git and GitHub resources

What to do first

You may want to start by reading part of Rebecca Parker’s Git and GitHub at the command line tutorial, which walks through installation and configuration step by step.

• Download Git
• Install Git
• Create a GitHub account

Tutorial

Although there are GUIs for Git, we use and recommend the Git command line, which you can learn about at:

• Got 15 minutes and want to learn Git?
• Rebecca Parker’s Git and GitHub at command line
• Software Carpentry’s Version Control with Git

Reference

• Git Reference
• Git user manual
• A visual Git reference
• Scott Chacon and Ben Straub’s Pro Git book
• Sven Hoffman’s Git cheat sheet

Got a merge conflict?

• Painless merge conflict resolution in Git
• Meld offers a GUI for editing and resolving merge conflicts