Git Book

Git Community Book

The open Git resource pulled together by the whole community

AUTHORS
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Alecs King (alecsk@gmail.com), Amos Waterland (apw@rossby.metr.ou.edu), Andrew Ruder (andy@aeruder.net), Andy
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(dak@gnu.org), Dmitry V. Levin (ldv@altlinux.org), Francis Daly (francis@daoine.org), Gerrit Pape (pape@smarden.org),
Greg Louis (glouis@dynamicro.ca), Gustaf Hendeby (hendeby@isy.liu.se), Horst H. von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl), J.
Bruce Fields (bfields@fieldses.org), Jakub Narebski (jnareb@gmail.com), Jim Meyering (jim@meyering.net),Johan Herland
(johan@herland.net), Johannes Schindelin (Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de), Jon Loeliger (jdl@freescale.org), Josh Triplett
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Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 1

Introduction

WELCOME TO GIT
Welcome to Git - thefast, distributed version control system.
This book is meant to be a starting point for people new to Git to learn it as quickly and easily as possible.
This book will start out by introducing you to the way Git stores data, to give you the context for why it is different than
other VCS tools. This is meant to take you about 20 minutes.
Next we will cover Basic Git Usage - the commands you will beusing 90% of the time. These should give you a good
basis to use Git comfortably for most of what you're going to use it for. This section should take you about 30 minutes to
read through.

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Next we will go over Intermediate Git Usage - things that are slightly more complex, but may replace some of the
basic commands you learned in the first section. This will mostlybe tricks and commands that will feel more comfortable
after you know the basic commands.
After you have all of that mastered, we will cover Advanced Git - commands that most people probably don't use very
often, but can be very helpful in certain situations. Learning these commands should round out your day-to-day git
knowledge; you will be a master of the Git!
Now that you know Git, wewill then cover Working with Git. Here we will go over how to use Git in scripts, with
deployment tools, with editors and more. These sections are meant to help you integrate Git into your environment.
Lastly, we will have a series of articles on low-level documentation that may help the Git hackers who want to learn
how the actual internals and protocols work in Git.
Feedback and ContributingAt any point, if you see a mistake or want to contribute to the book, you can send me an email at schacon@gmail.com, or
you can clone the source of this book at http://github.com/schacon/gitbook and send me a patch or a pull-request.
References
Much of this book is pulled together from different sources and then added to.
If you would like to read some of the original articles or resources,...