<https://git-scm.com/download/linux>`_.
Microsoft Windows: download `git-for-windows
-<https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases>`_ or `msysGit
-<https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases>`_.
+<https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases>`_.
MacOS X: use git installed with `XCode
-<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/downloads/>`_ or download from
-`MacPorts <https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=git>`_ or
+<https://developer.apple.com/xcode/>`_ or download from `MacPorts
+<https://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=name&substr=git>`_ or
`git-osx-installer
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/git-osx-installer/files/>`_ or
install git with `Homebrew <http://brew.sh/>`_: ``brew install git``.
-`git-cola <https://git-cola.github.io/index.html>`_ is a Git GUI
-written in Python and GPL licensed. Linux, Windows, MacOS X.
+`git-cola <https://git-cola.github.io/index.html>`_ (`repository
+<https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola>`__) is a Git GUI written in
+Python and GPL licensed. Linux, Windows, MacOS X.
`TortoiseGit <https://tortoisegit.org/>`_ is a Windows Shell Interface
to Git based on TortoiseSVN; open source.
<https://git-scm.com/docs/git-rebase#_recovering_from_upstream_rebase>`_.
It is in ``git help rebase``.
-On the other hand don't be too afraid about commit editing. You can
+On the other hand, don't be too afraid about commit editing. You can
safely edit, reorder, remove, combine and split commits that haven't
been pushed yet. You can even push commits to your own (backup) repo,
edit them later and force-push edited commits to replace what have
original commit but preserve two commits created in the current branch
do something like::
- $ git branch save-master # create a new branch saving master
- $ git reflog # find the original place of master
+ $ git branch save-master # create a new branch saving master
+ $ git reflog # find the original place of master
$ git reset $COMMIT_ID
$ git cherry-pick save-master~ save-master
- $ git branch -D save-master # remove temporary branch
+ $ git branch -D save-master # remove temporary branch
git revert: revert a commit
$ git check-attr -a -- \*.py
+Useful assets
+-------------
+
+`GitAlias <http://gitalias.com/>`_ (`repository
+<https://github.com/GitAlias/gitalias>`_) is a big collection of
+aliases. A careful selection of aliases for frequently used commands
+could save you a lot of keystrokes!
+
+`GitIgnore <https://www.gitignore.io/>`_ and
+https://github.com/github/gitignore are collections of ``.gitignore``
+files for all kinds of IDEs and programming languages. Python
+included!
+
+`pre-commit <http://pre-commit.com/>`_ (`repositories
+<https://github.com/pre-commit>`_) is a framework for managing and
+maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. The framework is written
+in Python and has a lot of plugins for many programming languages.
+
+
Advanced topics
===============
Wiki.
+Root
+----
+
+Git switches to the root (top-level directory of the project where
+``.git`` subdirectory exists) before running any command. Git
+remembers though the directory that was current before the switch.
+Some programs take into account the current directory. E.g., ``git
+status`` shows file paths of changed and unknown files relative to the
+current directory; ``git grep`` searches below the current directory;
+``git apply`` applies only those hunks from the patch that touch files
+below the current directory.
+
+But most commands run from the root and ignore the current directory.
+Imagine, for example, that you have two work trees, one for the branch
+``v1`` and the other for ``master``. If you want to merge ``v1`` from
+a subdirectory inside the second work tree you must write commands as
+if you're in the top-level dir. Let take two work trees,
+``project-v1`` and ``project``, for example::
+
+ $ cd project/subdirectory
+ $ git fetch ../project-v1 v1:v1
+ $ git merge v1
+
+Please note the path in ``git fetch ../project-v1 v1:v1`` is
+``../project-v1`` and not ``../../project-v1`` despite the fact that
+we run the commands from a subdirectory, not from the root.
+
+
ReReRe
-======
+------
Rerere is a mechanism that helps to resolve repeated merge conflicts.
The most frequent source of recurring merge conflicts are topic
Database maintenance
-====================
+--------------------
Git object database and other files/directories under ``.git`` require
periodic maintenance and cleanup. For example, commit editing left
a program; default program for ``-O`` is a pager (usually ``less``),
but you can use your editor::
- $ git grep -Ovim # but not -O vim
+ $ git grep -Ovim # but not -O vim
BTW, if git is instructed to use ``less`` as the pager (i.e., if pager
is not configured in git at all it uses ``less`` by default, or if it
gets ``less`` from GIT_PAGER or PAGER environment variables, or if it
-was configured with ``git config --global core.pager less``, or
+was configured with ``git config [--global] core.pager less``, or
``less`` is used in the command ``git grep -Oless``) ``git grep``
passes ``+/$pattern`` option to ``less`` which is quite convenient.
Unfortunately, ``git grep`` doesn't pass the pattern if the pager is
not exactly ``less``, even if it's ``less`` with parameters (something
-like ``git config --global core.pager less -FRSXgimq``); fortunately,
+like ``git config [--global] core.pager less -FRSXgimq``); fortunately,
``git grep -Oless`` always passes the pattern.
<https://kallithea-scm.org/>`_ and `pagure <https://pagure.io/>`_,
both are written in Python; pagure was written by Fedora developers
and is being used to develop some Fedora projects. `GitPrep
-<http://gitprep.yukikimoto.com/>`_ is yet another Github clone,
+<http://gitprep.yukikimoto.com/>`_ is yet another GitHub clone,
written in Perl. `Gogs <https://gogs.io/>`_ is written in Go.
-`GitBucket <https://takezoe.github.io/gitbucket/about/>`_ is written
-in Scala.
+`GitBucket <https://gitbucket.github.io/gitbucket-news/about/>`_ is
+written in Scala.
-And last but not least, `Gitlab <https://about.gitlab.com/>`_. It's
+And last but not least, `GitLab <https://about.gitlab.com/>`_. It's
perhaps the most advanced web-based development environment for git.
Written in Ruby, community edition is free and open source (MIT
license).
To start converting your Mercurial habits to git see the page
`Mercurial for Git users
-<https://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GitConcepts>`_ at Mercurial wiki.
+<https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/GitConcepts>`_ at Mercurial wiki.
At the second half of the page there is a table that lists
corresponding Mercurial and git commands. Should work perfectly in
both directions.
documents a few differences between git and hg.
+Git and GitHub
+==============
+
+`gitsome <https://github.com/donnemartin/gitsome>`_ - Git/GitHub
+command line interface (CLI). Written in Python, work on MacOS, Unix,
+Windows. Git/GitHub CLI with autocomplete, includes many GitHub
+integrated commands that work with all shells, builtin xonsh with
+Python REPL to run Python commands alongside shell commands, command
+history, customizable highlighting, thoroughly documented.
+
+
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