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2nd Edition (2014)
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The entire Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub and published by Apress, is available here. All content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike 3.0 license. Print versions of the book are available on Amazon.com.

1. Getting Started
    1.1 About Version Control
    1.2 A Short History of Git
    1.3 What is Git?
    1.4 The Command Line
    1.5 Installing Git
    1.6 First-Time Git Setup
    1.7 Getting Help
    1.8 Summary
2. Git Basics
    2.1 Getting a Git Repository
    2.2 Recording Changes to the Repository
    2.3 Viewing the Commit History
    2.4 Undoing Things
    2.5 Working with Remotes
    2.6 Tagging
    2.7 Git Aliases
    2.8 Summary
3. Git Branching
    3.1 Branches in a Nutshell
    3.2 Basic Branching and Merging
    3.3 Branch Management
    3.4 Branching Workflows
    3.5 Remote Branches
    3.6 Rebasing
    3.7 Summary
4. Git on the Server
    4.1 The Protocols
    4.2 Getting Git on a Server
    4.3 Generating Your SSH Public Key
    4.4 Setting Up the Server
    4.5 Git Daemon
    4.6 Smart HTTP
    4.7 GitWeb
    4.8 GitLab
    4.9 Third Party Hosted Options
    4.10 Summary
5. Distributed Git
    5.1 Distributed Workflows
    5.2 Contributing to a Project
    5.3 Maintaining a Project
    5.4 Summary
6. GitHub
    6.1 Account Setup and Configuration
    6.2 Contributing to a Project
    6.3 Maintaining a Project
    6.4 Managing an organization
    6.5 Scripting GitHub
    6.6 Summary
7. Git Tools
    7.1 Revision Selection
    7.2 Interactive Staging
    7.3 Stashing and Cleaning
    7.4 Signing Your Work
    7.5 Searching
    7.6 Rewriting History
    7.7 Reset Demystified
    7.8 Advanced Merging
    7.9 Rerere
    7.10 Debugging with Git
    7.11 Submodules
    7.12 Bundling
    7.13 Replace
    7.14 Credential Storage
    7.15 Summary
8. Customizing Git
    8.1 Git Configuration
    8.2 Git Attributes
    8.3 Git Hooks
    8.4 An Example Git-Enforced Policy
    8.5 Summary
9. Git and Other Systems
    9.1 Git as a Client
    9.2 Migrating to Git
    9.3 Summary
10. Git Internals
    10.1 Plumbing and Porcelain
    10.2 Git Objects
    10.3 Git References
    10.4 Packfiles
    10.5 The Refspec
    10.6 Transfer Protocols
    10.7 Maintenance and Data Recovery
    10.8 Environment Variables
    10.9 Summary
A1. Appendix A: Git in Other Environments
    A1.1 Graphical Interfaces
    A1.2 Git in Visual Studio
    A1.3 Git in Visual Studio Code
    A1.4 Git in Eclipse
    A1.5 Git in IntelliJ / PyCharm / WebStorm / PhpStorm / RubyMine
    A1.6 Git in Sublime Text
    A1.7 Git in Bash
    A1.8 Git in Zsh
    A1.9 Git in PowerShell
    A1.10 Summary
A2. Appendix B: Embedding Git in your Applications
    A2.1 Command-line Git
    A2.2 Libgit2
    A2.3 JGit
    A2.4 go-git
    A2.5 Dulwich
A3. Appendix C: Git Commands
    A3.1 Setup and Config
    A3.2 Getting and Creating Projects
    A3.3 Basic Snapshotting
    A3.4 Branching and Merging
    A3.5 Sharing and Updating Projects
    A3.6 Inspection and Comparison
    A3.7 Debugging
    A3.8 Patching
    A3.9 Email
    A3.10 External Systems
    A3.11 Administration
    A3.12 Plumbing Commands

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