<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_ or
install git with `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_: ``brew install git``.
+`Atlassins's SourceTree <https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/>`_ is a free
+Git and Mercurial GUI client for Windows or Mac.
+
Initial configuration
---------------------
$ git clone -b v1 http://git.python.org/python.git
git clones remote repository ``http://git.python.org/python.git`` to
-directory ``python``, creates remote branches and checks out branch
-``v1`` into the working directory.
+directory ``python``, creates remote branches, creates a local branch
+``v1``, configure it to track upstream remotes/origin/v1 branch and
+checks out ``v1`` into the working directory.
Updating local and remote branches
----------------------------------
You really should push only to bare repositories. For non-bare
repositories git prefers pull-based workflow.
+When you want to deploy code on a remote host and can only use push
+(because your workstation is behind a firewall and you cannot pull
+from it) you do that in two steps using two repositories: you push
+from the workstation to a bare repo on the remote host, ssh to the
+remote host and pull from the bare repo to a non-bare deployment repo.
+
Tags
''''
Git doesn't automatically pushes tags. That allows you to have private
tags (lightweight tags are also private for a repo, they cannot be
-pushed). To push tag(s) list them explicitly::
+pushed). To push tags list them explicitly::
$ git push origin tag 1.4.2
$ git push origin v1 v2 tag 2.1.7