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I highly recommend biting the bullet and reading through Pro Git by Scott Chacon (from Github).

http://progit.org/book/

It's about 200 pages but it really, really helped me internalize how git works. Each git feature/command is explained with a use case and a clear illustration of what's going on.

The online version is free and it's available as a PDF, epub, and mobi.




> The online version is free and it's available as a PDF, epub, and mobi.

To disambiguate: ebook versions are also free (at least as of 2 minutes ago!).


A thousand times yes. It's about as user-friendly a git resource you're going to get.

I would recommend having progit open when reading the man pages. Git get's a lot of stick for having impenetrable documentation, but once you have have the vocab internalized it becomes a lot simpler.




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