Git

Git

the fast version control

License: GPL
Web: http://git-scm.com/

Git is a distributed version control system. It's very popular in the open source community, and is used by projects like the Linux Kernel, Xorg and openSUSE.

Features

Git is designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency, but it's just as well suited for small personal repositories.

Git is a distributed source code management tool, like Mercurial or Bazaar. This means that every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities and is not dependent on network access or a central server.

Git is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License v2. It was originally written by Linus Torvalds and is currently maintained by Junio C Hamano.

Getting git

Git is included in the distribution.

Newer packages and their backports to older distributions can be found here

Resources and Learning git

Usage

git Community book
Daily git tips
git Cheat Sheet
Git in a Nutshell, by Jonas Jusélius, very concise.
- TeX source
- PDF
git Magic, by Ben Lynn, very detailed
Pro Git, by Scott Chacon

Federico Mena posts:
- Pushing and pulling with git 1
- Pushing and pulling with git 2
Branching and merging with git

Advanced internals and concepts

Git Tools

qgit , git repository viewer (Qt 4.x based)
gitk , git repository viewer (tcl/tk based, included in git)

Git hosting

For information on how to publish your git repositories, see git hosting page.