Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is lightning fast and has a huge ecosystem …

git config help bugreport Credential helpers Getting and Creating Projects init clone Basic Snapshotting add status diff commit notes restore reset rm mv Branching and Merging branch checkout switch …

Tell Git to forget about a file without deleting it: git rm --cached <file>

You can learn more about individual Git commands with "git help command". gitcli [7] manual page gives you an overview of the command-line command syntax. A formatted and hyperlinked copy of the …

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Now What? Now that you have downloaded Git, it's time to start using it. Read the Book Dive into the Pro Git book and learn at your own pace. Download a GUI Several free and commercial GUI tools …

The Git Status Bar (lower left) shows the current branch, dirty indicators, incoming and outgoing commits. You can do the most common git operations from within the editor:

With Git, every time you commit, or save the state of your project, Git basically takes a picture of what all your files look like at that moment and stores a reference to that snapshot.

Git was built to work on the Linux kernel, meaning that it was built to handle repositories with tens of millions of lines of code from the start. Speed and performance has always been a primary design …

Since Git is quite excellent at preserving backwards compatibility, any recent version should work just fine. Though most of the commands we use should work even in ancient versions of Git, some of …