Oh, my dear Git… How did I ever code without you by my side!

Please learn Git! ASAP..

Quick tip for developers: if you are not using git (even if you are using some other Version Control System) for your development, please pause your life and learn it! In all seriousness, I feel that it is one of the most under-rated tools that neither schools cover as a requisite in courses nor do developers spend a lot of time mastering.

I am relatively new to the world of Git as well (coming from SVN and thinking that it was all that!)

quick side-note

Here is some bashing or SVN

but to be fair, here are some things myth busting, but personally the killer fact that it is a a Distributed local VCS does it for me, (now that I understand the workflow better).

Sources to start from

There are a million awesome resources out there made with love and care by people who have been in this business much longer than I have, so I would like to refer to some of their good work that I have benefited from to get you started,

Git Book - The default primer
Atlassion Guide to Git - my personal favorite!
Branching - once you got the basics
Gitflow - and once you are comfortable with Branching, you should take a look at this approach to collaborate

Interactive tutorials

There are a lot of cool interactive tutorials that I would personally recommend as well if you are not in a position to try it out on a computer right now:

Github’s - good place to start
CodeAcademy’s - another excellent resource
Branching - once you are done with the basics, this is a key feature you should get