external-resources.md

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Enlightenment and Concepts

• Think Like (a) Git
• Understanding Git Conceptually
  • Introduction to concepts (commits, pointers, branches, graphs)
• Git from the bottom up
  • Detailed explanation of git concepts

Interactive trainings

• GitHub courtesy Code School course
  • Learn git commands and concepts interactively.
  • Also available at Code School

• LearnGitBranching
  • Application designed to help beginners grasp the powerful concepts behind branching when working with git.

Books

• Pro Git
  • Free e-book available in HTML, PDF, mobi or ePub format.
  • Also in Spanish.
• Git Magic
  • Step by step explanations of every operation and why they are useful in real-life scenarios
• Matias Beckerle's collection

Reference

• Official reference manual
• Everyday Git With 20 Commands
  • A guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.
• Resources / how to guides
  • For future reference

Glossary

• GitHub Glossary
• Official Git Glossary

Tutorial

• GitHub Guides
  • A site from GitHub that focuses on workflows and higher-level Git and GitHub concepts.
• Introductory Reference & Tutorial
  • This introductory walkthrough acts as a nice tutorial
• Git Immersion
  • A guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.
• Capacitacion en Git (Spanish)
  • Introduction, basic concepts, practical examples
• Git - The simple guide
  • Just a simple guide for getting started with git. no deep shit ;)
  • Also available in Spanish

Videos

• Linus Torvald's TED talk on Git
• Pluralsight Courses
  • Git Fundamentals (Spanish CC available)
  • Git for Visual Studio Developers
• Git Basics
  • What is Version Control? (05:59)
  • What is Git? (08:15)
  • Get Going with Git (04:26)
  • Quick Wins with Git (05:06)
• GitHub & Git foundations
  • Setup (01:50)
    • Let us help you discover the installation options for both GitHub and Git.
  • Introduction (03:40)
    • Git and GitHub features presentation
  • Config (02:23)
    • Command line common settings
  • Init (02:02)
    • Learn how to create a new Git repository from the command line and on github.com
  • Diff (03:09)
    • Easily decipher file changes with the diff command.
• GitHub features quick look
  • GitHub Notifications (03:45)
    • This is a quick tour of GitHub Notifications tool.
  • Collaboration with Git and GitHub (06:33)
    • Forks, Online editor, Pull request, and Official GitHub clients
  • GitHub for Windows (01:03)
  • GitHub Issues (02:27)
    • This is a quick tour of GitHub Issues tool.
• More GitHub official videos
• GitHub Guides Youtube channel

Flows

• A successful git branching model
  • Schematic with master + develop + feature branches / hotfixes branches, when finished each is merged onto the others with merge no-ff (master, develop are the ones that get pushed)
• GitHub-flow
  • Branches per feature + master, pull requests & merge after code review