Brainhack 2021 Git Guide

In this hands-on session, we will collaboratively improve a guide on Git using Github and/or Git. To begin, please read our guide on contributing!

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Welcome to Git
2. The Git Object Model
3. Git Directory and Working Directory
4. The Git Index

Basic Usage

5. Getting a Git Repository
6. Normal Workflow
7. Basic Branching and Merging
8. Reviewing History - Git Log
9. Comparing Commits - Git Diff
10. Distributed Workflows
11. Git Tag

Intermediate Usage

12. Ignoring files
13. Rebasing
14. Interactive Rebasing
15. Interactive Adding
16. Stashing
17. Git Treeishes
18. Tracking Branches
19. Finding with Git Grep
20. Undoing in Git - Reset, Checkout, and Revert
21. Maintaining Git
22. Setting Up A Public Repository
23. Setting Up a Private Repository

Additional Resources

• Pro Git book for a comprehensive guide on everything Git and Github
• Git Cheat Sheets for a quick reference to Git commands
• GitHub Learning Lab for hands-on practice using Git
• Git-it for a desktop app with Git challenges
• Happy Git with R for integrating Git version control with R
• DataLad for Git-like version control of datasets

Credits

Adapted from gitbook by

• Scott Chacon
• Emil Sit