git top links: 2010-1

Hi,

Here are four months into one.

1. Tower, the most powerful Git client for Mac (89): Interesting new and powerful git client
2. Introductory Guide to Git Version Control System (51): Thorough indoductory guide
3. A collection of useful .gitignore templates (45): C, C++, Python, every language has different common .gitignore templates
4. The Designer’s Guide to Git or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Repository. (24)
5. Git info in your ZSH Prompt (21)
6. Git Supervisual Cheatsheet (16): Simple and colorful cheatsheet
7. Classy Git (15): Another great presentation from Scott Chacon
8. Get Started with Git (14): Very nice article introducing Git and DSCM in general by Al Shaw
9. Gitifier; Git commit notifier for MacOSX (14)
10. Getting Good with Git! (28)
11. git-achievements: Earn geeky merit badges while learning Git (13)
12. RubyDrop (12): “RubyDrop is my first ever Ruby project that aims to be an open-source, roll-your-own, Dropbox clone. It uses Git as the backend for file tracking and remote syncing.”
13. gitmodel (12): “An ActiveModel-compliant persistence framework for Ruby that uses Git for versioning and remote syncing.”
14. Slaying dragons with git, bash, and ruby (11): Tricks to use git hooks to prevent bad commits
15. libgit2 (11): “libgit2 is a portable, pure C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a re-entrant linkable library with a solid API, allowing you to write native speed custom Git applications in any language which supports C bindings.”
16. Version Control for Designers (10)

Japanese

1. link (23)
2. link (11)
3. link (9)

git top links: 2010-8

Hi,

It seems the amount of new links has decreased significantly, so this time I’m going to post recurring links too. Enjoy

New

1. A few git tips you didn’t know about (157): Very useful tips, even for git masters
2. Why aren’t you using git-flow? (29): Introducing git-flow; a bunch of Git extensions for Vincent Driessen’s branching model.
3. Continuous Deployment, Code Review and Pre-Tested Commits on Digg4 (12): How the digg team uses an array of tools to achieve fast, continous, and stable deployment.
4. Making GitHub More Open: Git-backed Wikis (12): GitHub now features git-backed wikis using git and GitHub’s markup library.

Recurring

1. Git Reference (160): Comprehensive guide for git; well organized, and pleasant to the eye
2. Pro Git (113): A book by Git experts to turn you into a Git expert.
3. Git for the lazy (66): Straightforward introduction to git
4. A successful Git branching model (54)
5. Git – SVN Crash Course (24): Straight-to-the-point crash course for subversion users
6. An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows (20)
7. Setting up a new remote git repository (19)
8. Tv’s cobweb: Git for Computer Scientists (18): Explanation of git operations through diagrams
9. github (16): Popular Git hosting with social networking capabilities.
10. Gitbox — Everyday git interface for human beings. (12): Graphical UI for Mac OS X

git top links: 2010-7

It has been a long time since the last post. I blame it to a) I haven’t had much time b) there hasn’t been so much activity b.1) or there’s a problem with Google Reader that it’s doping some activity.

I’ll be taking a close look at Google Reader to see if it’s doping some stuff, but if anyone has a recommendation for an RSS aggregator that would store thousands of entries, that would be nice.

Here’s the list of new top links:

1. Git Reference (191): Comprehensive guide for git; well organized, and pleasant to the eye
2. Git for the lazy (62): Straightforward introduction to git
3. Gitbox — Everyday git interface for human beings. (57): Graphical UI for Mac OS X
4. Agile git Workflow (25): Tips to use git on an “agile” environment
5. Tv’s cobweb: Git for Computer Scientists (18): Explanation of git operations through diagrams
6. Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby (14): A story of why Stack Overflow’s podcast regarding DVCS was plain wrong
7. An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows (12)
8. Mercurial tutorial (12): /me shrugs
9. Git for the nervous developer (10): Explaining git from a convert
10. Sparkle Share (9): Tool to replace dropbox (uses git internally)

git top links: 2010-2

Here’s the list of new top links:

1. A Visual Git Reference (125): Very nice visualizations of common git operations
2. A successful Git branching model (45)
3. Aha! Moments When Learning Git (43): Explanation of commonly ignored git concepts
4. 分散バージョン管理入門 (イラスト入り) (18)
5. Smart HTTP Transport (13): Excellent explanation of the apparently underhyped http transport
6. Only You Can Prevent git Merge Commits (10): Simple tip to avoid merge commits
7. Setting up a public (bare) repository with git (9)
8. Git for Eclipse users (9)
9. 10 Useful git commands (8)
10. 私がSubversionをやめてGitに移った理由 (6)

git top links: 2010-1

Time for the first links for 2010. This time the process of finding out old entries has been automated so no duplicates (and less time for me to generate these)

Here’s the list of new top links:

1. 25 Tips for Intermediate Git Users (230): Comprehensive git tips
2. Using Git to Maintain Your Website (42)
3. Setting up your Git repositories for open source projects at GitHub (41): Mostly so pulling and pushing works correctly; and pull requests are ok
4. SmartGit — The Easy-to-Use Git-Client (39)
5. Persistent Trees in git, Clojure and CouchDB (36)
6. Amp — Version Control Revolution (24): Meta SCM; aims to support git, bzr, hg, etc. through the same ui
7. Gerrit — Gerrit Code Review (24): Code review and project management for git based projects
8. how’s my code (20): Agile review tool for git based projects
9. Why Git is so fast (20): Interesting thread in git mailing list about why git is so fast: C
10. On commit messages (16): Peter Hutterer reminds us what good commit messages are

git top links: 2009-11

These are the top 20 links for November (and previous months). I haven’t had time to work on this so that’s why I’m aggregating the months of September and October too and the list is bigger than usual.

I’ve improved my tools to generate this, so hopefully I’ll be able to post these more often. I’ll also post them soon just in case people want to help too.

As you can see the first two links were overwhelmingly popular, it seems people like stuff from Scott Chacon

1. Pro Git (483): A book by Git experts to turn you into a Git expert.
2. Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git (384): Very detailed article that summarizes the advantages of Git over Subversion.
3. learn.github (257): Compilation of online training courses
4. Easy Version Control with Git (155): Compact and comprehensive guide to get started with git.
5. Gource (88): Software version control visualization.
6. How We Made GitHub Fast (78): Detailed explanation of how github was optimized in many areas.
7. Understanding Git Conceptually (75): Simple yet useful tutorial to get familiar with Git concepts.
8. git (72): Git’s home-page
9. The Git Community Book (64)
10. Git – SVN Crash Course (54): Straight-to-the-point crash course for subversion users
11. Setting up Gitorious on your own server (53): Detailed guide to setup your own Gitorious.
12. Feature Branch (53): Explanation of feature branches, continuous and promiscuous integration.
13. Hosting Git repositories, The Easy (and Secure) Way (47): Instructions to setup gitosus for git hosting.
14. pimping out git log (47): Tips to prettify git log format.
15. Setting up a new remote git repository (46)
16. GitCasts (43): Comprehensive screen-casts showing git tricks
17. Git: Your New Best Friend (42): Straightforward introduction got Git, using command line and ‘git gui’.
18. Subversion ユーザーのための Git: 第 1 回 Git 入門 (41): Simple introduction to Git for Subversion users (Japanese).
19. github (39): Popular Git hosting with social networking capabilities.
20. Git and Microsoft Development: A Success Story (36): A success story of Git on Windows development, and why other tools are not as
21. git ready (30): Big collection of git tips
22. Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub (29)
23. 「入門 GIT」が神本である件。 git 利用者だけでなくすべての開発者が読むべき本 (29)
24. Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So (26)
25. gity: The Git App For MAC (26)
26. Git in One Hour (24)
27. そろそろ真剣にGitを・・・という人のための『ProGit』が鋭意翻訳進行中っぽい (23)
28. [技術][Git]Git初心者が絶対に覚えておくべきコマンド (23)
29. Bananajour – Local git publication and collaboration (23): Local ad-hoc git hosting with web interface and Bonjour discovery.
30. TortoiseGit The coolest Interface to (Git) Version Control (22): Comprehensive (all-in-one) GUI for Git, just like TortoiseSVN
31. GitX (20): Attractive Git GUI made for Mac OS X.
32. indefero: Better code management (19): 100% vendor lock-in free hosted code and project management.
33. Git# –> Git for .NET and Mono (16): Implementation of Git for the Dot.Net Framework and Mono.
34. Why Git is Better than X (16)
35. Git Machine (15): Interesting presentation about git and github
36. git ready: tig, the ncurses front-end to Git (15): Intoduction to tig.
37. Git Magic (15): Comprehensive guide from getting started to advanced concepts.
38. Starting with Git (14): Guide to get started with Git in github.
39. Easy Fabric Deployment, Part 1: Git/Mercurial and SSH (14)
40. Git Extensions (13): Toolkit to make working with Git on Windows more intuitive.
41. Rails deployment made easy with Inploy (12)
42. chat sheets. $ cheat git (12)
43. Gitorious (12)
44. Using p4merge with Git (11)
45. git merge vs git rebase: avoiding rebase hell (11)
46. Git – Working on a User Story (11)
47. msysgit: Git on Windows (11)
48. Push to multiple Git repos (11)
49. メモcache: gitの概念図 (11)
50. Pro Gitの日本語版PDF (10)
51. When GitHub goes down… (10)
52. The Git Parable (10)
53. git ready: reflog, your safety net (10)
54. Git For Windows Developers (10)
55. homebrew (9): Packaging system for Mac OS X 10.5 and above.