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About GitHub and Git
You can use GitHub and Git to collaborate on work.
GitHub’s plans
An overview of GitHub's pricing plans.
Getting started with your GitHub account
With a personal account on GitHub, you can import or create repositories, collaborate with others, and connect with the GitHub community.
Getting started with GitHub Enterprise Server
Get started with setting up and managing your GitHub Enterprise Server instance.
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Hello World
Follow this Hello World exercise to learn GitHub's pull request workflow.
Set up Git
At the heart of GitHub is an open-source version control system (VCS) called Git. Git is responsible for everything GitHub-related that happens locally on your computer.
About versions of GitHub Docs
You can read documentation that reflects the GitHub product you're currently using.
GitHub glossary
This glossary introduces common Git and GitHub terminology.
Git basics
- Set up Git
- Setting your username in Git
- Caching your GitHub credentials in Git
- Why is Git always asking for my credentials?
- Updating credentials from the macOS Keychain
- Git workflows
- About remote repositories
- Managing remote repositories
- Associating text editors with Git
- Configuring Git to handle line endings
- Ignoring files
- Git cheatsheet
Using Git
- About Git
- Pushing commits to a remote repository
- Getting changes from a remote repository
- Dealing with non-fast-forward errors
- Splitting a subfolder out into a new repository
- About Git subtree merges
- About Git rebase
- Using Git rebase on the command line
- Resolving merge conflicts after a Git rebase
- Dealing with special characters in branch and tag names