/awesome-git

A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things

Awesome Git

A curated list of amazingly awesome Git tools, resources and shiny things.

Contributing

Pull requests on interesting tools/projects/resources are welcome.

Table of Contents

Tutorial

There are tons of learning material on the Web

Client

Git clients are available on every platform, from mainframe to your mobile device

  • TortoiseGit - an easy-to-use Git client on Windows. well-intrgrated with Windows Explorer.
  • GitHub Desktop - Git Client by GitHub. works with GitHub and GitHub Enterprise seamlessly
  • SourceTree - free (in-beer) GUI client. Windows and Mac only
  • Tower - a popular non-free Git GUI client. Mac and Windows
  • SmartGit - a commercial comprehensive SCM client with Git, SVN, Mercurial. cross-platform (works on Windows, Mac and Linux)
  • RabbitVCS - TortoiseSVN inspired graphic tool for version control systems, with Nautilus and Thunar integration
  • gitg - a open-source GTK+ GUI client
  • git-cola - a cross-platform Git GUI client
  • SGit - Git client for Android 4.x
  • Ungit - The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.
  • GitKraken - a cross Git client for Windows, Mac & Linux. Electron based. Free for non-commercial use and paid Pro version is available.
  • GitUp - a clean, minimal Git client. Mac only.
  • GitExtensions - a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2010-2015 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool.

Repository Hosting

People have plenty of options to host their source code

  • GitHub - the de-facto git hosting service. Perfect integration with most external services.
  • BitBucket - well-known for its free private repository (5 user max).
  • CodePlex - Microsoft’s free open source code hosting service with many ASP/C# OSS projects
  • Kiln - paid Git repository hosting service
  • GitLab.com - a free Git repository hosting service served by GitLab EE. Unlimited repositories and private collaborators
  • AWS CodeCommit - a SaaS service provided by Amazon Web Service on high availability infrastructure
  • Codeplane - a paid Git repository hosting service with no contributor limit
  • Deveo - a paid repository hosting service with support for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, WebDAV

Self-Hosted Repository

Or you can host the code yourselves

  • Gitolite - a simple with fine-grained access control
  • GitHub Enterprise - self-hosted solution provided from GitHub
  • Bitbucket Server - self-hosted refrom Atlassian. Good integration with JIRA and other Atlassian products
  • GitLab CE/EE - a popular open-source Git (CE) with paid support option (EE).
  • Upsource - recent offer from Jetbrains, a famos developer-oriented software company. Code repository hosting feature pending. Free for 10 users. Good integration with YouTrack and TeamCity
  • GitBucket - a GitHub clone powered by Scala.
  • Gogs - a self-hosted Git Service written in Go.
  • GitBlit - Pure Java Stack for managing, view, and serving Git repositories.
  • Apache Allura - an open source implementation of project hosting platform
  • Phabricator - an integrated set of powerful tools to help companies build higher quality software
  • RhodeCode CE/EE - a platform delivering enterprise source code management

Workflow

Inexpensive branching allows people adopt workflows other than the classic centralilzed workflow

Hook management

Git provide hooks at commit/push phrase, allowing integration with and code quality checking tool and Continuous Integration (CI)

  • pre-commit - a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks from Yelp. Extensive support for multiple programming language.
  • Overcommit - a extendable Git hook manager written with Ruby.
  • git-hooks - tool to manage project, user, and global Git hooks
  • quickhook - a fast, Unix'y, opinionated Git hook runner

Tools

Various tools for daily operations

  • myrepos - a tool to manage multiple version control repositories
  • mu-repo - a tool to help in dealing with multiple git repositories
  • gr - a tool for managing multiple git repositories
  • BFG Repo-Cleaner - a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history
  • GitIgnore Collection - collection of gitignore files for various programming language
  • etckeeper - a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git repository
  • git-extras – git utilities adding useful git commands.
  • git-extra-commands - Another collection of useful git commands.
  • git-follow - a tool for following lifetime changes of a file throughout the history of a Git repository.
  • Gitrob - a command line tool to find sensitive information lingering in publicly available files on GitHub
  • gitFS - a FUSE file system that fully integrates with git
  • Gitless - an experimental version of Git that changes some of Git's underlying concepts
  • ghq — Organization for remote repositories

Extensions

Git is designed for source control management. but people extend the idea and push version control to everywhere

  • Git Large File Storage - practical solution for versioning large files. supported by GitHub
  • git-annex - allow managing large binaries among machines, as if operation a normal git repository. possible to creates a synchronised folder with git-annex assistant.