Git tutorial links

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This post originally appeared on the Software Carpentry website.

I promised to post some links related to the Git tutorial I taught on May 24, 2012. Most of my material was based on this excellent online book (free): http://git-scm.com/book/ch1-3.html. Here's another resource with help on specific and common Git commands: http://gitref.org/.

Someone asked the differences between Git and Mercurial, but because I haven't used Mercurial I wasn't able to answer. I found these links that I hope are useful: http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Git_vs_Mercurial and http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/apr/06/differences-between-mercurial-and-git/. Also, here's a video of Linus Torvalds himself (creator of the Linux kernel and Git) promoting Git (and putting down everything that is not Git):

Carlos Anderson on The Carpentries

Git tutorial links