Learning resources

• git --help
• Try Git, 15 min online tutorial
• The Git Book
• Software Carpentry:
  • Unix Shell
  • Git lesson
• GitHub Guides, check out Hello World to learn GitHub features
• Bitbucket Git Tutorials

Recent articles

• Art of the Commit
• Push, Pull, Fork: GitHub for Academics
• Why you should use GitHub: Lessons for the classroom and newsroom
• Using Git in the classroom
• Git for designers
• Happy Git and GitHub for the useR (use Git with RStudio)
• Github-pages student portfolio lesson

Repository hosting services

The Big ones:

• GitHub (Free public repos, gh-pages web hosting, huge community, Github Desktop app, Education discount)
• Bitbucket (Free private repos with limited collaborators, Git or Mercurial, SourceTree app, Education discount)
• Gitlab (Free public and private repos with unlimited collaborators, gitlab pages)

Others:

• Gitbook (focus on creating and publishing books)
• Penflip (focus on collaborative writing)

Other Version Control Software

• Mercurial (Hg) (some say its easier than Git? See this intro for artists)
• Subversion (old standard centralized system)
• Fossil (unique web interface based system)