General Git Help

If you have any Git-related questions first look at these links:

• Git Flight Rules
• Git Book

Graphical User Interfaces for Git

Although we recommend to learn Git via its command line interface a graphical interface may help in using Git. There are numerous tools available.

The following tools are used by OGS developers:

• git-gui and gitk, Linux / Mac / Windows, free, often pre-installed with git
• SourceTree, Mac / Windows, free
• Fork, Mac / Windows, commercial with free evaluation, supports our branching / rebasing workflow
• tig, Linux / Mac / Windows, command line repository browser
• Some VS Code extensions like Git Graph