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Git Wiki Homepage
Welcome to the Git wiki web site. This wiki is a community effort to provide an accurate source of information for all things related to Git. Make sure to visit the Git website (http://git-scm.com) for current updates and information. The Git web site source is also managed using Git. The maintainers of the Git website would love patches for improving the website. It's a great way to try out Git. If you come across anything in this wiki or the Git homepage that needs to be fixed; help yourself and fix it. The more people who help work on this wiki the better this site will serve Git users. Think of this site as a Wikipedia for Git.
Starting points
- Installation
- Git Tools – Note: Have you written one? Add it here and announce it on the list!
- Git Documentation
- Git Community Support
- Projects using Git
- FAQ
- Documentation/SubmittingPatches
- Git Hosting
- Links to Git-related websites
- Git Compared
- Summer of Code 2011 projects
- Summer of Code 2012 ideas
- Git on Windows
News
- October 03, 2011: Git User's Survey 2011 has been closed. GitSurvey2011.
- September 05, 2011: Git User's Survey 2011 has been opened.
- August 20-21, 2011: Open Git-Workshop at FrOSCon, St. Augustin/Germany
- April 25, 2011: 5 Git projects accepted for Google Summer of Code 2011 (and at least five other Git-related)
- March 18, 2011: Git has been accepted to the Google Summer of Code 2011 program. SoC 2011 Project Ideas.
- October 15, 2010: Git User's Survey 2010 had been closed. GitSurvey2010.
- September 1, 2010: Git User's Survey 2010 has been opened.
- June 30, 2010: GitTogether '10 announced. GitTogether'10
- June 12, 2010: A new contributors-only Git for Windows was released.
- April 26, 2010: 4 Git projects accepted for Google Summer of Code 2010
- March 22, 2010: Git 1.7.0.3 is out
- March 9, 2010: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 is out.
- February 12, 2010: Git Version 1.7.0 now available Release Notes
- January 14, 2010: The Git Wiki starts to move to http://git.wiki.kernel.org/
- September 15, 2009: Git User's Survey 2009 has been closed. GitSurvey2009
- April 20, 2009: Google Summer of Code Git projects announced. SoC 2009 Git Projects
- April 13, 2009: GitTogether '09 announced. GitTogether'09
- January 07, 2009: Google Summer of Code 2009 pre-announced. 2009 Project Ideas
- January 07, 2009: The Git home page moved from git.or.cz to git-scm.com (the old URL redirects to the new one)
- December 02, 2008: Webpage whygitisbetterthanx.com launches
- October 27-29, 2008: GitTogether '08
- August 17, 2008: Git Version 1.6.0 now available Release Notes
- June 18, 2008: Git Version 1.5.6 now available Release Notes
- May 25, 2008: Git Version 1.5.5.2 now available Release Notes
- May 07, 2008: InfoQ compares Git with Mercurial and Bazaar with Git leading in performance
- April 22, 2008: Google Summer of code Git projects announced. SoC 2008 Git Projects
- April 20, 2008: Git Version 1.5.5.1 now available Release Notes
- April 10, 2008: GitHub launches and ends beta opening doors for anyone looking for Git hosting
Good starting places for developing Git would be
Using this Wiki
Disambiguation
Git is not to be confused with at least these three unrelated projects which also provide commands named git. These should be uninstalled (or renamed) to use this git.
- gnuit (GNU Interactive Tools) is a set of file browsing and viewing tools (a text-based file manager).
- Git (Guitar/Instrument Tuner) is a defunct portable guitar tuner.
- Grit (GBA Raster Image Transmogrifier) is a tool to convert images to the Game Boy Advance hardware. It used to be called "git", but have since changed name.
