Picture tutorials for learning Git?

Question

I find Git very difficult to learn if you just use read about it.

Are there some tutorials that show you pictures for branching, merging, cloning etc so that you could understand more easy?

Like this one: http://osteele.com/images/2008/git-transport.png

Answer 1

Understanding Git Conceptually is nice a compilation of explainations on how git works, it will help you to understand and master the concept behing git, after, all the feature will appear natural. By the way, there are pictures !

Answer 2

Yes, there is one: http://marklodato.github.com/visual-git-guide/

Answer 3

when looking for a "graphical" intro to git you should consider this excellent book:

• http://progit.org/book/
  • e.g. (branching): http://progit.org/book/ch3-1.html

other important ressources:

• http://git-scm.com - The main information source regarding git
• http://gitref.org
• http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/everyday.html

for in depth info there is no way around this:

• http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html

Answer 4

What I understand from your situation is that you need a conceptual introduction to, actually, how a Distributed VCS works and then specifically how to apply those learnt concepts with Git and use it efficiently. I had followed this route:

1. Re-educate yourself with DVCS concepts. Joel Spolsky's hginit.com takes you through the DVCS concepts with baby-steps so you could get a solid understanding and revise your concepts. Although it uses Mercurial for practice but trust me it'll take you just a day and then you'll be in a much better shape to use Git.

2. Pro Git is the book we all know and love. But it's text and illustrative diagrams will only help you when you have a conceptual background.