# Additional Git resources

## Tutorials and summaries

- github help has an excellent series of how-to guides.

- learn.github has an excellent series of tutorials

- The pro git book is a good in-depth book on git.

- A git cheat sheet is a page giving summaries of common commands.

- The git user manual

- The git tutorial

- The git community book

- git ready - a nice series of tutorials

- git casts - video snippets giving git how-tos.

- git magic - extended introduction with intermediate detail

- The git parable is an easy read explaining the concepts behind git.

- Our own git foundation expands on the git parable.

- Fernando Perez’ git page - Fernando’s git page - many links and tips

- A good but technical page on git concepts

- git svn crash course: git for those of us used to subversion

## Advanced git workflow

There are many ways of working with git; here are some posts on the rules of thumb that other projects have come up with:

- Linus Torvalds on git management

- Linus Torvalds on linux git workflow . Summary; use the git tools to make the history of your edits as clean as possible; merge from upstream edits as little as possible in branches where you are doing active development.

## Manual pages online

You can get these on your own machine with (e.g) `git help push` or (same thing) `git push --help`, but, for convenience, here are the online manual pages for some common commands:

- git add

- git branch

- git checkout

- git clone

- git commit

- git config

- git diff

- git log

- git pull

- git push

- git remote

- git status