# 2. Learning Git

## Basics

1. Start your training with the free course: [Try Git](https://try.github.io)
2. It is important to understand the process in [this](http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/) article.
   * Memorizing the commands is not important because those are part of the UI in tools like [SourceTree](https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/) as clickable buttons.
3. Watch this [presentation](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11gkl1nfHHU1UQnd1n6Z4IaWeKA8PniqMf3TRTbgwe6c/present?slide=id.p4) on `Git Flow` by [Aquid](https://github.com/aquid)
4. Then move on to intermediate courses which require a paid subscription. There is a very good chance that your company already pays for it or could start paying for it. So quickly check with your reporting manager to make use of what's available.
   1. [Git Real](https://www.codeschool.com/courses/git-real)
   2. [Git Real 2](https://www.codeschool.com/courses/git-real-2)
   3. [Mastering Github](https://www.codeschool.com/courses/mastering-github)
5. [Git Hooks](https://www.codeschool.com/screencasts/git-hooks)

## Advanced

1. For those who love research and fully understand everything thus far perfectly ... you can also read up on:
   1. An [interesting](http://blog.rubydubee.com/git/2015/03/01/new-git-flow/) idea on how to do setup gitglow to be slightly different.
   2. [Feature Branches & Pull Requests](https://www.codeschool.com/screencasts/feature-branches-pull-requests)

## FAQs

1. How can we update a `fork` with changes from its source?
   * <https://help.github.com/articles/fork-a-repo#pull-in-upstream-changes>
2. How can we view just the commits that touched a particular line in a file?
   * [Retrieve the commit log for a specific line in a file](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8435343/retrieve-the-commit-log-for-a-specific-line-in-a-file)
3. How to fix tabs, indentation and whitespaces without changing git history?
   * [Change styling (whitespace) without changing ownership/blame](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4112410/git-change-styling-whitespace-without-changing-ownership-blame)
   * [Git commit that doesn't override original authors in git blame](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3945382/git-commit-that-doesnt-override-original-authors-in-git-blame)
4. How can we collect git statistics?
   * <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1828874/generating-statistics-from-git-repository>
     * <http://gitminer.com/>
     * <http://code.google.com/p/gitinspector/>
5. tbd...


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