Git

Resources

• What are commit-ish and tree-ish in Git?

• Keeping a fork up to date

• Changing author info - Script for updating any commits with matching user/email fields

• Git man page generator - Generate fake documentation (humor)

• Workflows

  • GitHub Flow - A lightweight, branch-based workflow that supports teams and projects where deployments are made regularly

Documentation

• Homepage

• Pro Git - second edition by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub (source)

  • Rebasing

• Specifying revisions

Cheat Sheets

• GitHub: Git cheat sheet

• Git command visualizer - Groups commands by subject

Glossary

Documentation

@

Alias for HEAD (release notes)

commit-ish

Any object that leads to a commit, e.g.: a commit, a tag pointing to a commit, a tag pointing to a tag … pointing to a commit.

tree-ish

Any object that contains a list of file names and modes along with refs to the associated blob and/or tree objects. Equivalent to a directory.

Commands

• git diff
• git log
• git ls-files
• git ls-tree
• git push
• git tag