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Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2026

Client

• Rebased (⭐4.6k) - A git client based on the IntelliJ platform

• gitj (Git Journey) (⭐1) - Fast, small, cross-platform GUI git client (gitk/git-gui style) with image diff support

Feb 10 - Feb 16, 2025

Self-Hosted Repository

• Harness Open Source - Open Source code hosting with secret scanning based on Gitleaks. Self-hosted and Apache-2.0 license.

Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2024

Self-Hosted Repository

• Forgejo - a community managed fork of Gitea, started after Gitea changed ownership.*

Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2023

Tutorial

• No Bullsh*t Git - free and complete explanation of git internals and the .git/ directory.

Oct 30 - Nov 05, 2023

Hook management / Comparing workflows

• pre-commit - a framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

• husky (⭐35k) - modern native Git hooks made easy.

• Overcommit (⭐4k) - a extendable Git hook manager written with Ruby.

• lefthook (⭐8.4k) - fast and powerful Git hooks manager for any type of project.

• Mookme (⭐105) - A simple and easy-to-use, yet powerful and language agnostic git hook for monorepos.

• quickhook (⭐62) - a fast, Unix'y, opinionated Git hook runner.

Oct 16 - Oct 22, 2023

Tools / Comparing workflows

• tig (⭐13k) - text-mode interface for git.

Oct 02 - Oct 08, 2023

Client

• Gittyup (⭐2.2k) - a graphical Git client designed to help you understand and manage your source code history.

Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2023

Workflow / Comparing workflows

• Agit-flow - Inspired by Gerrit workflow, Agit-flow is a centralized git workflow and used in Alibaba’s internal source code platform

Tools / Comparing workflows

• gitbackup (⭐232) - a tool to backup your Bitbucket, GitHub and GitLab repositories.

Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2023

Tools / Comparing workflows

• soba (⭐165) - scheduled backups of repositories from popular providers with change detection.

Mar 27 - Apr 02, 2023

Self-Hosted Repository

• Soft Serve (⭐7.1k) - a tasty, self-hostable Git server for the command line

Dec 05 - Dec 11, 2022

Tutorial

• The ultimate guide to .gitignore (⭐40) All about .gitignore.

Jun 27 - Jul 03, 2022

Client

• lazygit (⭐80k) - A simple terminal UI for git commands, written in Go

May 16 - May 22, 2022

Workflow

• Branching Models article from Nyx

Apr 25 - May 01, 2022

Tools / Comparing workflows

• jc --git-log - Convert your git log to JSON.

Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2022

Tools / Comparing workflows

• git-absorb (⭐5.6k) - git commit --fixup, but automatic

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2022

Tutorial

• Flight rules for Git (⭐42k) - guide about what to do when things go wrong

• Use gitk to understand git - all important Git terms (commit, commit SHA, branch, merge, rebase) explained using gitk

Client

• GitKraken - a cross Git client for Windows, Mac & Linux. Electron based. Free for non-commercial use and paid Pro version is available.

• Fork - An awesome and free git client for macOS and Windows

• TortoiseGit - an easy-to-use Git client on Windows. well-integrated with Windows Explorer.

Repository Hosting

• Jetbrains Space - Jetbrains all-in-one solution for software teams, with IM, ticket tracking, source control.

• Azure DevOps - cloud service for software development formerly known as Visual Studio Team Services, Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Service Preview

• Kiln - paid Git repository hosting service

Self-Hosted Repository

• onedev (⭐15k) - Self-hosted Git Server with Kanban and CI/CD

• GitBucket (⭐9.4k) - a GitHub clone powered by Scala.

• Phabricator - an integrated set of powerful tools to help companies build higher quality software
  • Effective June 1, 2021: Phabricator is no longer actively maintained.*

• Upsource - recent offer from Jetbrains, a famous developer-oriented software company. Code repository hosting feature pending. Free for 10 users. Good integration with YouTrack and TeamCity
  • Upsource is no longer available as a commercial product as of February 1, 2022.*

Workflow

• Patterns for Managing Source Code Branches

Tools / Comparing workflows

• multi-gitter (⭐1.2k) - a tool to make changes in multiple repositories simultaneously

• gitwalk (⭐122) - Bulk processing of git repos

• release-it (⭐9k) - Automate releases for Git repositories and/or npm packages. Changelog generation, GitHub/GitLab releases, etc.

• gickup (⭐1.4k) - Backup repos from various hosters to local or other hosters.

Dec 07 - Dec 13, 2020

Tutorial

• Git Cherry-pick and its usages - A blog explaining how command git cherry-pick works.

Nov 30 - Dec 06, 2020

Client

• Vershd - a free for personal use effortless Git GUI for Windows, Mac, & Linux.

Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2020

Tutorial

• Git Pocket Guide - a short O'Reilly book on Git

• Git Branching - visual way to learn git branching

• Git How To - step by step intro

• Migrating to Git LFS - Use Git LFS on an existing repository to manage large files in a better way

• Explain Git with D3 - Visualized few basic Git concepts using D3.js: commit, branch, checkout, reset, revert, merge, rebase, fetch, pull, push, tag

• Interactive/Contextual/Visual Cheat Sheet

• CodeBasicsHub: Git Video Tutorials

• A Git Choose Your Own Adventure - I never found a git tutorial I didn't understand while doing it. Just sometimes those tutorials didn't line up very well with my actual work. This git help in the form of a choose your own adventure was a life saver when I was first starting out.

Client

• Tower - a popular non-free Git GUI client. Mac and Windows

• SmartGit - a commercial comprehensive SCM client with Git, SVN, Mercurial. cross-platform (works on Windows, Mac and Linux)

• git-cola - a cross-platform Git GUI client

Repository Hosting

• BitBucket - well-known for its free private repository (5 user max).

Self-Hosted Repository

• Gitolite - a simple with fine-grained access control

• Gogs - a self-hosted Git Service written in Go.

Workflow / Comparing workflows

• Gitflow - the most well-known Git workflow model

Tools / Comparing workflows

• mu-repo - a tool to help in dealing with multiple git repositories

• etckeeper - a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git repository

• Gitless - an experimental version of Git that changes some of Git's underlying concepts

Feb 24 - Mar 01, 2020

Client

• Magit - A Git porcelain inside Emacs

Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2020

Tutorial

• Deconstructing a git commit - A blog explaining how git creates and stores commit histories.

Jan 20 - Jan 26, 2020

Tutorial

• Git-It (⭐4.9k) - Interactive Tutorial App that runs on your Desktop!

Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2019

Workflow / Comparing workflows

• Aoneflow - an interesting branch model which delays the final merge to production branch, adopted by Alibaba. more article (in Chinese text) at 1, 2

Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019

Tutorial

• On undoing, fixing, or removing commits in git - fairly comprehensive guide to recovering from what you did not mean to do when using git

May 20 - May 26, 2019

Tutorial

• Learn how to use Git - free tutorials and resources to help you learn the basics of Git

• Git School Dude - It's a YouTube channel with a lot of great git videos. It covers everything from the basics to advanced Git topics.

Oct 08 - Oct 14, 2018

Tutorial

• Fork and Pull Request Workflow (⭐963) - Very nicely explained, simple and crisp way of understanding git fork and pull request workflow.

Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018

Style Guide

• Udacity Nanodegree Style Guide

Tools / Comparing workflows

• conventional-changelog (⭐8.5k) - a set of tools for parsing conventional commit messages from git histories

Jun 25 - Jul 01, 2018

Self-Hosted Repository

• Gitea - a community managed fork of Gogs, lightweight code hosting solution written in Go.

Jun 04 - Jun 10, 2018

Tutorial

• Pro Git - free Git book, also available on paper (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

• Git & Git-Flow Cheat Sheet (⭐7.4k)

• Git Tips (⭐22k)

• The 'Git Pretty' Flow-Chart - How to Recover from a Mess

• Software Carpentry: Git Lessons

• The Git Parable - GitHub Cofounder's Narrative-style Intro to Git Concepts

• Intermediate Git - lower-level, more structural explanation of git concepts

Client

• Git Add-ons (⭐2.2k) - Enhance the basic git CLI

Repository Hosting

• GitHub - the de-facto git hosting service. Perfect integration with most external services.
  • Awesome GitHub (⭐963) - Resources & Learning for GitHub
    • GitHub Cheat Sheet (⭐58k)
    • GitHub Browser Extensions (⭐3.3k)

Apr 09 - Apr 15, 2018

Hook management / Comparing workflows

• more on https://githooks.com/

Oct 30 - Nov 05, 2017

Tutorial

• Making Sense of Git – A Visual Perspective - Git from a timeline and level perspective and git commands cheatsheet grouped by functionality

Tools / Comparing workflows

• bash-git-prompt (⭐6.9k) - An informative and fancy bash prompt for Git users

Oct 23 - Oct 29, 2017

Client

• WorkingCopy - a powerful Git client for iOS. Free with in-app purchase to unlock the ability to push commits.

Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2017

Tools / Comparing workflows

• awesome-git-addons (⭐2.2k) - lists more than 20 git addons including all available commands

Jun 19 - Jun 25, 2017

Extensions / Comparing workflows

• Git Virtual File System or GVFS (⭐6.1k) - solution for managing very large Git repository while maintaining speed and efficiency of most operations. in developement by Microsoft.

May 01 - May 07, 2017

Tools / Comparing workflows

• git-follow (⭐32) - a tool for following lifetime changes of a file throughout the history of a Git repository.

Mar 06 - Mar 12, 2017

Client

• GitExtensions - a shell extension, a Visual Studio 2010-2015 plugin and a standalone Git repository tool.

Nov 28 - Dec 04, 2016

Client

• GitUp - a clean, minimal Git client. Mac only.

Tools / Comparing workflows

• git-extra-commands (⭐1.2k) - Another collection of useful git commands.

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2016

Tools / Comparing workflows

• ghq (⭐3.7k) — Organization for remote repositories

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2016

Tutorial

• Learn Git in a Month of Lunches - tutorial-based book by Manning Publications

Oct 03 - Oct 09, 2016

Tutorial

• Git Magic - short book about Git

• Git from the bottom up - great series of articles about Git

Tools / Comparing workflows

• gr - a tool for managing multiple git repositories

Sep 26 - Oct 02, 2016

Repository Hosting

• Deveo - a paid repository hosting service with support for Git, Subversion, Mercurial, WebDAV

Self-Hosted Repository

• GitBlit - Pure Java Stack for managing, view, and serving Git repositories.

• Apache Allura - an open source implementation of project hosting platform

• RhodeCode CE/EE - a platform delivering enterprise source code management

Tools / Comparing workflows

• Gitrob (⭐6.2k) - a command line tool to find sensitive information lingering in publicly available files on GitHub

• gitFS - a FUSE file system that fully integrates with git

Sep 19 - Sep 25, 2016

Self-Hosted Repository

• Bitbucket Server - self-hosted refrom Atlassian. Good integration with JIRA and other Atlassian products

Jul 25 - Jul 31, 2016

Tools / Comparing workflows

• git-extras (⭐18k) – git utilities adding useful git commands.

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2015

Client

• Ungit (⭐11k) - The easiest way to use git. On any platform. Anywhere.

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2015

Tutorial

• Try Git - learn Git in 15 minutes with pseudo-terminal interface

• Atlassian Git Tutorial - comprehensive tutorial on Git

• Git Real: Code School - paid training course from Code School

Client

• SourceTree - free (in-beer) GUI client. Windows and Mac only

• SGit (⭐376) - Git client for Android 4.x

Repository Hosting

• GitLab.com - a free Git repository hosting service served by GitLab EE. Unlimited repositories and private collaborators

• AWS CodeCommit - a SaaS service provided by Amazon Web Service on high availability infrastructure

Self-Hosted Repository

• GitLab CE/EE - a popular open-source Git (CE) with paid support option (EE).

Workflow / Comparing workflows

• GitHub flow - a simple branching model with a single master

• GitLab flow

• Git DMZ Flow

Tools / Comparing workflows

• GitIgnore Collection (⭐175k) - collection of gitignore files for various programming language

Extensions / Comparing workflows

• Git Large File Storage - practical solution for versioning large files. supported by GitHub

• git-annex - allow managing large binaries among machines, as if operation a normal git repository. possible to creates a synchronised folder with git-annex assistant.

Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2015

Tutorial

• Learn Version Control with Git - freemium ebook from fournova Software (makers for Tower), associated with paid video course

• The Git Community Book - book built by dozens of people in the Git community

Client

• GitHub Desktop - Git Client by GitHub. works with GitHub and GitHub Enterprise seamlessly

• RabbitVCS - TortoiseSVN inspired graphic tool for version control systems, with Nautilus and Thunar integration

• gitg - a open-source GTK+ GUI client

Self-Hosted Repository

• GitHub Enterprise - self-hosted solution provided from GitHub

Workflow

• Pro Git - Distributed Workflows

• Atlassian Git Tutorial - Comparing Workflows

Tools / Comparing workflows

• myrepos - a tool to manage multiple version control repositories

• BFG Repo-Cleaner - a simpler, faster alternative to git-filter-branch for cleansing bad data out of your Git repository history