A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.
Pull requests on interesting tools/projects/resources are welcome.
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 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)
- 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 - app-tutorial on Git
- Git How To - step by step intro
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 and Windows
- 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.
- GitKraken - a cross Git client for Windows, Mac & Linux. Electron based. Free for non-commercial use and paid Pro version is available.
- GitUp - a clean, minimal Git client. Mac only.
- GitExtensions - a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2010-2015 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool.
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 - Microsoft’s 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
- Codeplane - a paid Git repository hosting service with no contributor limit
- Deveo - a paid repository hosting service with support for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, WebDAV
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.
- Apache Allura - an open source implementation of project hosting platform
- Phabricator - an integrated set of powerful tools to help companies build higher quality software
- RhodeCode CE/EE - a platform delivering enterprise source code management
Inexpensive branching allows people adopt workflows other than the classic centralilzed workflow
- Pro Git - Distributed Workflows
- Atlassian Git Tutorial - Comparing Workflows
- Gitflow - the most well-known Git workflow model
- GitHub flow - a simple branching model with a single master
- GitLab flow
- Git DMZ Flow
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
Various tools for daily operations
- myrepos - a tool to manage multiple version control repositories
- mu-repo - a tool to help in dealing with multiple git repositories
- 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
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.