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GitHub Guides is a collection of beginner-friendly tutorials and how-to articles that teach version control concepts and how to use GitHub’s features (Git basics, branching, pull requests, issues) for collaboration.

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Git Official Documentation

The reference hub maintained by the Git project itself: complete command manual pages, the Pro Git book, videos and release notes. Use it to check exact flag behaviour and semantics when a command does not do what you expected.

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Git Tutorial for Beginners

Corey Schafer works through Git from the command line: initialising or cloning a repository, staging and committing, inspecting history, branching and merging, and syncing with a remote. Leaves you comfortable with the everyday commands.

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Atlassian Git Tutorials

Atlassian's structured guide set covering the basics, branching models, merging versus rebasing, and collaboration workflows such as Gitflow and forking, with diagrams throughout. Useful for deciding how a team should organise branches and reviews.

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Pro Git Book (Official)

The Git project's official book by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub, free online in full. Moves from basic commands through branching, remotes, rebasing, hooks and Git's internal object model. The standard reference for why Git behaves as it does.

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Git and GitHub for Beginners - Crash Course

freeCodeCamp's introduction, taught by Gwen Faraday, covering repositories, commits, branches, merge conflicts, pull requests and forking. By the end you can set up a repository and contribute changes through GitHub's collaboration flow.

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Introduction to Git and GitHub

In this course, you’ll learn how to keep track of the different versions of your code and configuration files using a popular version control system (VCS) called Git. We'll also go through how to set up an account with a service called GitHub so that you can create your very own remote repositories to store your code and configuration. Throughout this course, you'll learn about Git's core functionality so you can understand how and why it’s used in organizations. We’ll look into both basic and more advanced features, like branches and merging. We'll demonstrate how having a working knowledge of a VCS like Git can be a lifesaver in emergency situations or when debugging. And then we'll explore how to use a VCS to work with others through remote repositories, like the ones provided by GitHub. By the end of this course, you'll be able to store your code's history in Git and collaborate with others in GitHub, where you’ll also start creating your own portfolio! In order to follow along and complete the assessments, you’ll need a computer where you can install Git or ask your administrator to install it for you.

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