Git - Fast Version Control System

Tutorials

The Git Reference site is a online git reference built as a tutorial.

The official Git tutorial is a good place to get started.

Everyday Git in 20 commands is good for a useful minimum set of commands.

The SVN Crash Course might be helpful if you're coming from the SVN world.

Git for Designers – No knowledge of version control? No problem.

Git for Computer Scientists – A quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph.

The Git User's Manual is a comprehensive resource, covering a lot of Git functionality.

Git Magic – An alternative online book with the source online.

Help.GitHub – Guides on a variety of Git and GitHub related topics

The official and comprehensive reference manual comes as part of the Git package itself

The DZone RefCard is a nice reference to keep handy

Visual Git Cheat Sheet is a one page printable cheat sheet

Linus Torvalds visits Google to share his thoughts on git, the source control management system he created two years ago.

A one-hour talk by Randal Schwartz describing what Git is, and why it should be used over other revision control systems.

Git Tutorial Talk – A recording of an excellent Git tutorial given by Bart Trojanowski for the Ottawa Group of Ruby Enthusiasts.

Here is a list of the most common commands you're likely to use on a day-to-day basis.

Local Commands
git config	Get and set repository or global options
git init	Create an empty git repository or reinitialize an existing one
git add	Add file contents to the index
git status	Show the working tree status
git commit	Record changes to the repository
git log	Show commit history
git show	Show information on any object
git tag	Create, list, delete or verify tags

Remotey Commands
git clone	Clone a repository into a new directory
git remote	Manage set of tracked repositories
git pull	Fetch from and merge with another repository or a local branch
git fetch	Download objects and refs from another repository
git push	Update remote refs along with associated objects

Branchy Commands
git checkout	Checkout a branch or paths to the working tree
git branch	List, create, or delete branches
git merge	Join two or more development histories together
git rebase	Forward-port local commits to the updated upstream head

Patchy Commands
git diff	Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc
git apply	Apply a patch on a git index file and a working tree
git format-patch	Prepare patches for e-mail submission
git am	Apply a series of patches from a mailbox

Git Internals PDF by Scott Chacon	Pragmatic Version Control Using Git by Travis Swicegood
Version Control with Git by Jon Loeliger	Pro Git by Scott Chacon Creative Commons Licensed
Pragmatic Guide to Git by Travis Swicegood