Git

You don’t need to know your trees from your dangling blobs. If you use Git every day and feel like it’s a juggling act, then here are some tricks and tips to help make your life a bit easier.

Getting comfortable with Git took me a long time. I thought I'd write a quick guide that assumes no prior knowledge, along with some of my favourite tips and tricks.

As a general rule, when merging a pull request from a feature branch with a messy commit history, you should squash your commits. There are exceptions, but in most cases, squashing results in a cleaner Git history that’s easier for the team to read.

Markdownish syntax for generating flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, gantt charts and git graphs.

I'm a Git newbie. I recently moved a Rails project from Subversion to Git. I followed the tutorial here: http://www.simplisticcomplexity.com/2008/03/05/cleanly-migrate-your-subversion-repository-...

An interactive git tutorial meant to teach you how git works, not just which commands to execute. So...

Ben Nadel creates a git cheat sheet for himself so that he can refer to it when he forgets how to execute certain git use cases. This git cheat sheet will also serve as a repository of the git information that he gathers over time.

The world of software development offers an infinite amount of ways to mess up: deleting the wrong things, coding into dead ends, littering commit

by Vali Shah An Introduction to Git Merge and Git Rebase: What They Do and When to Use Them As a Developer, many of us have to choose between Merge and Rebase. With all the references we get from the internet, everyone believes “Don’t use Rebase, it could cause serious problems.” Here I will explain what merge and rebase are, why you should (and shouldn’t) use them, and how to do so. Git Merge and Git Rebase serve the same purpose. They are designed to integrate changes from multiple branches

Git is used as distributed version control system for the majority of projects I work on. On Windows I use the official Git for Windows version, as well as the 'native' mingw/MSYS2 git binary when using the MSYS2 shell. The location of the system and global gitconfig configuration files varies, depending on which environment (native Windows command, Windows shell or MSYS2 shell) you're using, and depending on which binary (Git for Windows versus native git). There's a logic to it, but it can be hard to figure out... Git version 2 introduced a much easier method of finding where the git conf...

Git How To is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git, inspired by the premise that to know a thing is to do it. The surest path to mastering Git is to immerse oneself in its utilities and operations, to experience it first-hand.

Frustrated every time you forget to add a Git commit message and Vim, the default Git editor pops up? Here's a way to make issuing git commits a bit friendlier. In this Git tutorial, we show you ...

I'm trying out Git on Windows. I got to the point of trying "git commit" and I got this error: Terminal is dumb but no VISUAL nor EDITOR defined. Please supply the message using either -m or...

I don't want to rename a remote branch, as described in Rename master branch for both local and remote Git repositories. How can I rename a local branch which hasn't been pushed to a remote branch...

I want to force git to checkout files under Windows using just LF not CR+LF. I checked the two configuration options but I was not able to find the right combination of settings. I want it to conv...

Context A number of my application user configuration files are kept in a git repository for easy sharing across multiple machines and multiple platforms. Amongst these configuration files is .git...

VSCode Version: 1.25.1 OS Version: Windows 10 if git config core.filemode is set to true AND file endings are LF rather than CRLF then all files in a newly cloned repo will show as modified and rev...

My Git setup runs fine on Linux, but when I try to set things up under Windows (using Git for Windows and TortoiseGit), I don't know where to put my private SSH key (or, better still, how to tell ssh

A step by step guide on using Git with SSH keys in Windows.

Is there a file or menu that will let me change the settings on how to deal with line endings? I read there are 3 options: Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style Git will convert LF to CRLF w...

A straightforward post covering a step-by-step approach for Windows, Mac, and Linux users. No TL;DR needed - it's all right there, easy and digestible. Check it out!

With Bash on Ubuntu on Windows, you can use a Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10. With that, you can run many Linux commands, for example...

I have Windows 10 with Git installed. This Git uses my C:/Users/MyName dir as the HOME directory and the /.ssh/ dir within, appropriately for sourcing my private SSH keys. I have just enabled and ...

Does anyone know how to point WSL to a private key for SSH'ing in a cloud dev box? I'd rather not use Putty, thanks!