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Things I think everyone should know about Git

Length: 65 min

Description

Git makes many people suffer unnecessarily.

I will try to help you suffer less, by telling you a few things that I think all newcomers to Git should be told.

The most important bit is: Read Git From the Bottom Up by John Wiegley.

START HERE

What's covered

1. How to approach Git; general strategy
2. Definitely read Git From the Bottom Up
3. The repository is immutable
4. git-reflog finds stuff you thought was lost
5. Skim the git-rev-parse manual once in a while
6. Branches aren't real
7. Pushing and pulling; remotes and tracking branches
8. The index and partial commits (git-add -p)
9. Aliases and writing custom commands

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