Git

• Git branching
• Mastering Markdown
• „What are the best git branching strategies“ by Rowan Haddad
• „Git around the world“ by Cosima Meyer

Lists of Git resources

• Git/GitHub links by the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge
• Oh Shit Git!

Git Tutorials

• "Version Control with Git" by Software Carpentry
• "Git for humans" - slides by Alice Bartlett
• Git / GitHub resources by the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at University of Cambridge
• "A Friendly Github Intro Workshop" by Kirstie Jane
• "Data Science for Economists - Lecture 2: Version control with Git(Hub)" by Grant McDermott
• "Happy Git and GitHub for the useR" by Jenny Bryan, the STAT 545 TAs, Jim Hester
• "Version Control with Git" by The Carpentries
• „Become a git guru“ by Atlassian
• GitHub Docs
• „Using Git on your own“ - Chapter 7 of the book „Building software together“ by Greg Wilson
• CodeRefinery Workshop

Git Tips & Tricks

• "On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git" by Seth Robertson
• "Oh Shit, Git"
• "Removing sensitive data from a repository" by GitHub Docs
• "How to Write a Git Commit Message" by Chris Beams
• "Keeping a fork up to date"- Gist
• "Renaming a file using the command line" by GitHub Docs
• "What should I do about user-specific config files (example: .idea/)?" - Discussion on StackOverflow
• How to show untracked file

git status —untracked-files

Analogies of git add and git commit

One way to think about this is that git add puts things in a box to be shipped, while git commit actually sends the package. —- from „Using Git on your own“ - Chapter 7 of the book „Building software together“ by Greg Wilson

Other resources

• „What’s wrong with git?: a conceptual design analysis“

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Last update: 2022-10-19