Visual and interactive way to learn Git

I recommend this site to people a lot, it's nice. What's not nice is people not being aware that Git comes with a graphical history viewer for your actual repositories, gitk, which should really be people's default go-to. (There's also log --graph if you want ASCII art, but an actual GUI is quite a bit better. There's also other GUIs that display the information gitk does, of course.) Git is truly the Dark Souls of version control systems - that…

I can't recommend this highly enough. Before, I had been working with IBM Clearcase and SVN, so I don't feel like I "got" git until I saw, visually, the following: * interactive rebasing * how remote branches are represented * what HEAD is, and how it relates to branches * in day-to-day usage, commits are never really thrown away or deleted. For example, git amend doesn't actually delete a commit. This was a great starting point, it's highly interactive, and…

I have these Git shortcuts stored in my .zshrc file: # https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4298960/git-add-a-git-co... git config --global alias.ac '!git add -A && git commit' git config --global alias.acm '!git add -A && git commit -m' git config --global alias.ll '!git log --graph --full-history --all --color --pretty=format:"%x1b[31m%h%x09%x1b[32m%d%x1b[0m%x20%s"' git config --global alias.gst '!git status' git config --global alias.gca '!git commit -a --amend' git config --global alias.gp '!git push origin…

I really levelled up my git skills with this tutorial. Definitely worth putting in the effort.