Resources

Below are useful resources, further reading, and links referenced throughout this course.

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Official Documentation & Books

• Pro Git Book (Online, by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub)

• Git Documentation

• Git Bisect (Debugging with Git)

• Git Log (Viewing History)

• Git Submodule

• Customizing Git with Git Hooks

• Git Tools: Searching

• Git Tools: Submodules

• Git Tools: Signing Your Work

Platforms & Services

• GitHub

• Bitbucket

• Git Large File Storage (Git LFS)

• Zenodo

• Subversion (Apache)

• Mercurial

Workflows, Guides, and Best Practices

• Semantic Versioning

• Choosing an Open Source License

• A Note About Git Commit Messages (Tim Pope)

• Conventional Commits

• GitHub Actions

• GitHub Partial and Shallow Clone Guide

Authentication & Security

• GitHub Authentication

• GitHub Personal Access Tokens

Course-Specific & Example URLs

• CfRR: Configuring Git for Version Control

• GitHub Pull Requests: Checking Out Locally

• GitHub Viewing File Revision History

• University of Exeter Git

• Example Repository: test-repo

• Sample Course Repo Pull Requests

• Sample Course Repository

Tools

• Git Credential Manager (Microsoft)

Licensing

• Creative Commons BY 4.0

• MIT License

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If you have suggestions for additional resources, or spot a broken link, please let the course authors know!