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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.

Awesome Git

Tutorial

There are tons of learning material on the Web

Try Git - learn Git in 15 minutes with pseudo-terminal interface
Atlassian Git Tutorial - comprehensive tutorial on Git
Learn Version Control with Git - freemium ebook from fournova Software (makers for Tower), associated with paid video course
Pro Git - free Git book, also available on paper (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
Learn how to use Git - free tutorials and resources to help you learn the basics of Git
The Git Community Book - book built by dozens of people in the Git community
Git Pocket Guide - a short O'Reilly book on Git
Git Real: Code School - paid training course from Code School
Git Branching - visual way to learn git branching
Learn Git in a Month of Lunches - tutorial-based book by Manning Publications
Git Magic - short book about Git
Git from the bottom up - great series of articles about Git
Git-It - Interactive Tutorial App that runs on your Desktop!
Git How To - step by step intro
Migrating to Git LFS - Use Git LFS on an existing repository to manage large files in a better way
Explain Git with D3 - Visualized few basic Git concepts using D3.js: commit, branch, checkout, reset, revert, merge, rebase, fetch, pull, push, tag
Making Sense of Git – A Visual Perspective - Git from a timeline and level perspective and git commands cheatsheet grouped by functionality
Git & Git-Flow Cheat Sheet
Git Tips
Interactive/Contextual/Visual Cheat Sheet
The 'Git Pretty' Flow-Chart - How to Recover from a Mess
Software Carpentry: Git Lessons
The Git Parable - GitHub Cofounder's Narrative-style Intro to Git Concepts
CodeBasicsHub: Git Video Tutorials
Intermediate Git - lower-level, more structural explanation of git concepts
Fork and Pull Request Workflow - Very nicely explained, simple and crisp way of understanding git fork and pull request workflow.
Git School Dude - It's a YouTube channel with a lot of great git videos. It covers everything from the basics to advanced Git topics.
A Git Choose Your Own Adventure - I never found a git tutorial I didn't understand while doing it. Just sometimes those tutorials didn't line up very well with my actual work. This git help in the form of a choose your own adventure was a life saver when I was first starting out.
On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git - fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git
Deconstructing a git commit - A blog explaining how git creates and stores commit histories.
Flight rules for Git - guide about what to do when things go wrong
Use gitk to understand git - all important Git terms (commit, commit SHA, branch, merge, rebase) explained using gitk
Git Cherry-pick and its usages - A blog explaining how command git cherry-pick works.
The ultimate guide to <code>.gitignore</code> All about .gitignore.
No Bullsh*t Git - free and complete explanation of git internals and the .git/ directory.

Style Guide

Style guide when you work with git

Udacity Nanodegree Style Guide

Client

Git clients are available on every platform, from mainframe to your mobile device

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 and Windows
GitKraken - a cross Git client for Windows, Mac & Linux. Electron based. Free for non-commercial use and paid Pro version is available.
Fork - An awesome and free git client for macOS and Windows
TortoiseGit - an easy-to-use Git client on Windows. well-integrated with Windows Explorer.
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.
GitUp - a clean, minimal Git client. Mac only.
GitExtensions - a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2010-2015 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool.
WorkingCopy - a powerful Git client for iOS. Free with in-app purchase to unlock the ability to push commits.
Git Add-ons - Enhance the basic git CLI
Magit - A Git porcelain inside Emacs
Vershd - a free for personal use effortless Git GUI for Windows, Mac, & Linux.
lazygit - A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go
Gittyup - a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history.

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.
- Awesome GitHub - Resources & Learning for GitHub
  - GitHub Cheat Sheet
  - GitHub Browser Extensions
BitBucket - well-known for its free private repository (5 user max).
Jetbrains Space - Jetbrains all-in-one solution for software teams, with IM, ticket tracking, source control.
GitLab.com - a free Git repository hosting service served by GitLab EE. Unlimited repositories and private collaborators
Azure DevOps - cloud service for software development formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Service Preview
AWS CodeCommit - a SaaS service provided by Amazon Web Service on high availability infrastructure
Kiln - paid Git repository hosting service
Deveo - a paid repository hosting service with support for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, WebDAV

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 famous developer-oriented software company. Code repository hosting feature pending. Free for 10 users. Good integration with YouTrack and TeamCity~~
- Upsource is no longer available as a commercial product as of February 1, 2022.*
Gogs - a self-hosted Git Service written in Go.
Gitea - a community managed fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go.
onedev - Self-hosted Git Server with Kanban and CI/CD
GitBucket - a GitHub clone powered by Scala.
GitBlit - Pure Java Stack for managing, view, and serving Git repositories.
Apache Allura - an open source implementation of project hosting platform
Phabricator - an integrated set of powerful tools to help companies build higher quality software
- Effective June 1, 2021: Phabricator is no longer actively maintained.*
RhodeCode CE/EE - a platform delivering enterprise source code management
Soft Serve - a tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line

Workflow

Inexpensive branching allows people adopt workflows other than the classic centralized workflow

Comparing workflows

No single workflow fits everyone's need

Gitflow - the most well-known Git workflow model
GitHub flow - a simple branching model with a single master
GitLab flow
Git DMZ Flow
Aoneflow - an interesting branch model which delays the final merge to production branch, adopted by Alibaba. more article (in Chinese text) at 1, 2
Agit-flow - Inspired by Gerrit workflow, Agit-flow is a centralized git workflow and used in Alibaba’s internal source code platform

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.
husky - modern native Git hooks made easy.
Overcommit - a extendable Git hook manager written with Ruby.
lefthook - fast and powerful Git hooks manager for any type of project.
Mookme - A simple and easy-to-use, yet powerful and language agnostic git hook for monorepos.
quickhook - a fast, Unix'y, opinionated Git hook runner.
more on https://githooks.com/

Tools

Various tools for daily operations

awesome-git-addons - lists more than 20 git addons including all available commands
myrepos - a tool to manage multiple version control repositories
mu-repo - a tool to help in dealing with multiple git repositories
multi-gitter - a tool to make changes in multiple repositories simultaneously
gitwalk - Bulk processing of git repos
gr - a tool for managing multiple git 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-extras – git utilities adding useful git commands.
git-extra-commands - Another collection of useful git commands.
git-follow - a tool for following lifetime changes of a file throughout the history of a Git repository.
Gitrob - a command line tool to find sensitive information lingering in publicly available files on GitHub
gitFS - a FUSE file system that fully integrates with git
Gitless - an experimental version of Git that changes some of Git's underlying concepts
ghq — Organization for remote repositories
bash-git-prompt - An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users