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The Git Community Book

Welcome to the Git Community Book. This book has been built by dozens of people in the Git community, and is meant to help you learn how to use Git as quickly and easily as possible.

If you see anything out of date, have a suggestion on how to improve it, or would like to help add to the book, please see the How to Contribute page, or just send our maintainer a note.

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New to Git?

If you want to really understand Git, You may want to start at the beginning.

If you just want to jump right in, you can skip right to setting it up.

1. Introduction Welcome to Git The Git Object Model Git Directory and Working Directory The Git Index 2. First Time Installing Git Setup and Initialization 3. Basic Usage Getting a Git Repository Normal Workflow Basic Branching and Merging Reviewing History - Git Log Comparing Commits - Git Diff Distributed Workflows Git Tag 4. Intermediate Usage Ignoring files Rebasing Interactive Rebasing Interactive Adding Stashing Git Treeishes Tracking Branches Finding with Git Grep Undoing in Git - Reset, Checkout and Revert Maintaining Git Setting Up A Public Repository Setting Up a Private Repository

5. Advanced Git Creating New Empty Branches Modifying your History Advanced Branching And Merging Finding Issues - Git Bisect Finding Issues - Git Blame Git and Email Customizing Git Git Hooks Recovering Corrupted Objects Submodules 6. Working with Git Git on Windows Deploying with Git Subversion Integration SCM Migration Graphical Git Hosted Git Alternative Uses Scripting and Git Git and Editors 7. Internals and Plumbing How Git Stores Objects Browsing Git Objects Git References The Git Index The Packfile Raw Git Transfer Protocols

This book is maintained by Scott Chacon, and hosting is donated by GitHub.
Please email me at schacon@gmail.com with patches, suggestions and comments.