The 20 Best Git Books for Newbie and Professional Programmers

Version control is a very important thing for codes and
files in team collaboration, and Git is one of the important tools
for version control. Git and GitHub are also interrelated in their
functions. Presently git is the most popular tool for version
control with 70% search interest—nearly 6k companies, including
Reddit, Shopify, and Netflix Git clients^[1]. Now, if you want to be
an expert on Git and GitHub^[2], you need to start with
some best guidelines. Getting a perfect guideline is tough;
thereby, we are here with an impressive number of Git books that
will act as perfect guidelines to learn Git.  

Best Git Books for Newbie and
Professional

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In this book, we have gathered an impressive number of Git
books intending to help the readers find the best books easily to
learn Git. Most of the books have covered both Git and GitHub;
thus, they are enough in their contents. Almost all the books are
helpful for the beginners; however, there are some dedicated books
for the experts and some books which serve the purposes of all. We
believe you will find your suitable book by reading the short intro
to the book and the contents mentioned with each book.

1. An Introduction to Git and
GitHub

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This git book teaches the basic and fundamental aspects of
Git. It covers the starting, installing, creating an environment to
work, etc. in the beginning. Besides, you will know what will
happen once you do something and what you should do before
committing anything by coding. Some of the important topics are
creating a local git repository, changing and adding files, looking
at differences, etc.

Table of Contents

• What is Git and GitHub?
• Installing Git
• Configuring Git
• Creating a Git Repository
• Finding Out What’s Happening
• Making Changes and Tracking Them
• Synchronizing your Local Git Repository with
  GitHub
• Deleting and Renaming Files
• Undoing Changes
• Branching
• Tags and Releases
• Downloading a Repository
• Managing Multiple Copies of Repository

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2. Building Tools with GitHub

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Most of the data are accessible and can be modified that
are kept in Git repositories by using the GitHub API. So, this book
helps you to find out the ways to do those in a very easy and
simple way. You will find the activities, data of Git,
miscellaneous topics, etc besides, you can know how to modify
anything that is linked to repositories. 

Table of Contents

• The Unclad GitHub API
• Gists and the Gist API
• GitHub and Wikis with Gollum
• Python and the Search API
• .Net and the Commit Status API
• Ruby and Jekyll
• Android and the Git Data API
• CoffeeScript, Hubot, and the Activity API
• JavaScript and the Git Data API
• GitHub Enterprise
• Ruby, NodeJS, (and the Shell) at GitHub

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Git Community Book is a perfect guideline for the starters
to Git. The book will teach you the data storing in git within a
very short time. The book mainly discusses the installation
procedure of Git, the common and baseline usages, the medium level
usages, and the advanced level. You will also come to know how to
work in the best possible way in a Git environment.

Table of Contents

• Welcome to Git
• First Time Installing Git
• Basic Usage
• Intermediate Usage
• Advanced Git
• Working with Git
• Internals and Plumbing

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4. Git Essentials: Create, Merge, and
Distribute Code with Git

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Like other Git books, Git Essential: Create, Merge, and
Distribute Code with Git also starts with the fundamentals of Git.
You will come to know how to start smoothly with Git. It will take
you to learn the fundamental working procedure from being local and
remote. In the end, the book will give you a very rich resource of
Git to learn Git with confidence.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started with Git
• Git Fundamentals- Working Locally
• Git Fundamentals- Working Remotely
• Git Fundamentals- Niche Concepts, Configurations, and
  Commands
• Obtaining the Most- Good Commits and
  Workflows
• Migrating to Git
• Git Resources

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5. Git Flow

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Git Flow is a very interesting book where you will not
only learn with text, but there are many illustrations to make you
learn Git easily with visual illustrations. The book contains
different conventions, the installation process, features of Git,
etc. In describing the features, it takes topics like creation,
lifetime, etc. The same procedure is followed in Hotfix and
Release.

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6. Git for Humans

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The book has a different starting, unlike other Git books
do in their starting. Firstly the book will give you the thought of
versions in the very starting. Then you will come to know the
primary things of Git. Then it will take you to different branches
of Git where you can get familiar with the subject properly. And
finally, the book will enlighten you with the history of the topic
in an outstanding way.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Thinking in Versions
• Chapter 2: Basics
• Chapter 3: Branches
• Chapter 4:Remotes
• Chapter 5: History

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7. Git for Teams

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So far, all the Git books we discussed were based on
tutorials or guidelines of Git for individuals; now this book
presents the way to utilize Git as a team. The book teaches how to
define the workflow in the beginning, where it includes how to work
as a team, how the command and control are maintained, different
mechanisms and tricks to perform the work in an organization, etc.
Then it teaches the application of commands, different projects,
etc.

Table of Contents

• Part I: Defining Your Workflow

Working in Teams Command and Control
Branching Strategies Workflows That Work

• Part II: Applying the Commands to Your Workflow

Team of One Rollbacks, Reverts, Resets, and
Rebasing Teams of More the One Ready for
Review Finding and Fixing Bugs

• Part III: Git Hosting

Open Source Projects on GitHub Private Team Work
on Bitbucket Self-Hosted Collaboration with
GitLab

• Butter Tarts

Installing the Latest Version of Git Configuring Git SSH Keys

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8. Git Magic

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How about learning Git like magic? Well, here is the book
to teach you like magic. The book offers different tricks to learn
the basics of the subject. Then the branching will be taught in a
very innovative way like magic. You will come to know the history
so enrich your confidence. After that, the book will give you the
tricks to become a master on Git and will help you to know
different secrets to learn Git easily.

Table of Contents

• Basic Tricks
• Cloning Around
• Branch Wizardry
• Lessons of History
• Git Grandmastery
• Secrets Revealed
• Git Shortcomings

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9. Git Pocket Guide

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Git Pocket Guide is one of the most comprehensive Git
books from O’Reilly collection. The book is a super easy guideline
to understanding Git as a beginner. The book contains Refs,
branches, push, and pull in the first chapter. It will teach you
the basic configuration, ignoring files, doing and undoing commits,
etc. in the next chapter. The book also covers how to merge, access
remotely, and different miscellaneous parts.

Table of Contents

• Understanding Git
• Getting Started
• Making Commits
• Undoing and Editing Commits
• Branching
• Tracking Other Repositories
• Merging
• Naming Commits
• Viewing History
• Editing History
• Remote Access
• Miscellaneous
• How Do I?

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10. Git: Notes for
Professionals

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If you want to be a professional in Git then the book is
the right choice. The book starts from the very basics like how to
start with Git, then teaches you must know the histories of the
subject. Gradually different important basic and advanced topics
like Git Diff, Merging, Analysing, Pulling, Blaming, etc comes into
the discussion. Git: Notes for Professionals is one of the best Git
books for professionals due to its rich content.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started with Git
• Browsing the HIstory and Working with Remotes
• Staging, Ignoring Files and Folders
• Git Diff, Undoing, Merging, Submodulules, and
  Committing
• Aliases, Rebasing, Configuration, Branching
• Rev-LIst, Squashing, Cherry Picking, and
  Recovering
• Git Clean, Using a .gitattributes file
• .mailmap file: Associating Contributor and email
  Aliases
• Analyzing Types of Workflows
• Pulling, Hooks, Cloning Repositories, Stashing, Subtrees,
  Renaming
• Pushing, Internals, git- tfs, Empty Directories in
  Git.

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11. Git: Succinctly

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Ryan Hadson has produced this outstanding book to learn
Git professionally. The book covers the overview with the directory
of working, history, different branches, etc. Gradually the book
teaches the installation and configuration of different important
elements. In the upcoming chapters topics like branching,
manipulating, listing, pulling comes in discussion as different
sub-discussions of topics.

Table of Contents

• Overview

The Working Directory The Staging Area
Committed History

• Getting started

Installation Configuration
Initialising Repositories

• Recording Changes

The Staging Area Inspecting the Stage
Commits

• Branches

Manipulating Branches Listing Branches
Checking Out Branches

• Remote Repositories

Manipulating Remotes Remote Branches
Remote Workflows

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12. Git: Version Control for
Everyone

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Version Control is very important and one of the most
discussed topics in the field of Programming. Here in this book,
all the guidelines are for the beginners of the version control
with Git. The important topics of the book are falling for Git, the
way to choose the types, time for actions and installation of Git
in different OS like Windows, Linux and mac. Then the book teaches
deep discussion on version control. 

Table of Contents

• Breath Easy- Introduction to Version Control
• Welcome Abroad- Installing Git
• Polishing Your Routine- How to Increase Everyday
  Routine
• Split the Load- Distributed Working with Git
• Puppet Master- Learn Fancy Features to Control Git’s
  Function
• Unleash the Beast- Git on Text-Based Files
• Parallel Dimensions- Branching with Git
• Behind the Scenes- Branching with Git

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13. GitHub
Essentials

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The book helps to get the power of collaborative workflow. It
will teach you how to control the power of benefits. There is a
vast discussion on the use of wiki. You will be benefited by
getting different tips and tricks on the topic and that will
definitely make your learning easy. Web Analytics, managing code
versioning, organising setting, etc are some of the important
topics discussed in the book.

Table of Contents

• Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker

Exploring the Repository’s Main Page Learning how to Use the
Powerful Benefits of the Issue Tracker

• Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning

Using Wiki Managing Code Versioning

• Managing Organisations and Teams

The Difference Between Users and Organisations Organisation roles
an Repository Permission Levels Creating and Organisation Global
Member Privileges

• Collaboration Using the GitHub Workflow

Peer Review and Inline Comments Merge the Pull Request Tips and
Tricks

• GitHub Pages and Web Analytics

GitHub Pages Web Analytics Tips and Tricks

• Exploring the User ad Repository Settings

User Settings Repository Settings Tips and Tricks

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14. Jump Start Git

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Jump Start Git is a well arranged book to learn Git in a
nice fashion. It will teach you about version control with
different examples. The installation process, branching, procedure
of working as a team etc are some of the priority topics in the
book. How to handle errors, debugging and tools for them are there
in the error correction chapter. The book also covers how to open
the potentials and use GUI tools using Git.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started with Git
• Branching in Git
• Using Git in a Team
• Correcting Errors While Working with Git
• Unlocking Git’s Full Potential
• Gut GUI Tools

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15. Learn Git in a Month of
Lunches

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What should you do before you start to learn Git? Well,
this book is the perfect among all Git books that will guide you
exactly what you should do before you start with Git. It will give
a good introduction to version control at the beginning. After
getting proper orientation you will know GUI, tracking, branches,
cloning, etc in chronological way. 

Table of Contents

• Before You Begin
• An Overview of Git and Version Control
• Getting Oriented with Git
• Making and Using a Git Repository
• Using Git with a GUI
• Tracking and Updating Files in Git
• Computing Parts of Changes
• The Time Machine that is Git
• Taking a Fork in the Road
• Merging Branches
• Cloning
• Collaboration with Remotes
• Pushing Your Changes
• Keeping in Sync
• Software Archeology
• Understanding Git Rebase
• Workflows and Branching conventions
• Working with GitHub
• Third-Party Tools and Git
• Sharpening Your Git

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16. Learning Version Control with
Git

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Learn Version Control with Git is a book which is
considered a course in a step-by-step method for the beginners. The
basic part teaches you about version control nitigrities, and
configuration of Git in your computer. Then you will learn bracing,
merging, etc. A variety of advanced topics like undoing things and
local changes, inspecting, etc are there in the
book. 

Table of Contents

• The Basics

What is Version Control? Why Use a Version
Control System? Getting Ready Setting Up
Git on Your Computer

• Branching and Merging

Branching Can Change Your Life Working in
Contexts Working with Branches Saving
Changes Temporarily Checking Out a Local Branch

• Remote Repositories

About Remote Repositories Local/ Remote
Workflow Connecting a Remote Repository
Inspecting Remote Data

• Advance Topics

Undoing Things Undoing Local Changes
Inspecting Changes in Detail with Diffs Dealing
with Merge Conflicts

• Tools and Services

Desktop GUI’s  Diff and Merge Tools
Code Hosting Services

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17. Pragmatic Guide to Git

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This pragmatic guide is a chronological guide to learn
Git. Firstly the book talks about installation, configuration,
repositories etc in the first chapter. Then some of the general
operations like staging, committing, ignoring, etc comes. In the
next chapters it has highlighted how to work as a team, branchiing,
merging, how to fix things in the proper way, etc. 

Table of Contents

• Getting Started- Installing and Configuring Git, Creating
  a New Repository
• Working with Git- Seeing What has Changed, Ignoring and
  Moving Files
• Organizing Your Repository with Branches and Tags- 
  Viewing Branches
• Working with a Team- Adding and Removing
  Remote
• Branches and Merging Revisited- Handling
  Conflicts
• Working with the Repository’s History- Viewing the Log,
  Filtering Log Output
• Fixing Things- Fixing Commits, Reverting Commits, Erasing
  Commits
• Moving Beyond the Basics- Exporting Your
  Repositories

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18. Pragmatic Version Control Using
Git

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Version control is a very important field in the
programming arena. There are lots of Git books on version control,
however this book is very specific in learning version control with
git. The book starts with the setting procedure of Git and teaches
how to start a project with Git. In the next parts, it will make
you understand about working procedures with branching,
repositories, organization, and something other than
basics.

Table of Contents

• Part I: Welcome to the Distributed World

Version Control the Git Way Setting Up
Git Creating Your First Project

• Part II: Everyday Git

Adding and Commenting: Git Basics Understanding
and Using Branches Working with Git’s History
Working with Remote Repositories Organizing with
Remote Repositories Organizing Your Repository
Beyond the Basics

• Part III: Administration

Migrating to Git Running a Git Server with
Gitosis 

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19. Pro Git

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Apress presents Pro Git where you can find everything you
need to learn Git. The book starts with the fundamentals of Git.
Firstly the starting with Git by installing and configuring them on
computer and then the basics of Git come into discussion. After
discussion branching it will take you to the server of Git and
distributed Git. Finally the book will end by discussing how to
customize Git and the relation of Git with other
systems.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Git Basics
• Git Branching
• Git on the Server
• Distributed Git
• GitHub
• Git Tools
• Customising Git
• Git and Other Systems

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20. Version Control with Git

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O’Reilly’s Version Control with Git is one of the best Git
books to explain version control in the proper manner. Like other
Git books, the book starts with the installation and configuration
of Git in the system and then takes a tour to the basic elements
and topics of Git. Gradually the important and essential topics
like commits, branches, merges, diffs etc are discussed. Finally
the book talks about repositories and some of the projects of
Git.

Table of Contents

• Installing Git
• Getting Started
• Basic Git Concepts
• File Management and the Index
• Commits
• Branches
• Diffs
• Merges
• Altering Commits
• Remote Repositories
• Repository Management
• Patches
• Hooks
• Combining Projects
• Using Git with Subversion Repositories

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Finally, Insight

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The books are unique in their way of teaching and rich in
their contents. All the books were written with different
intentions and perspectives, however, the common intention is to
teach Git. We believe these Git books have helped you to learn Git
in a comfortable and well designed way. We expect your kind and
valuable advice if any for the improvement of our effort. Please
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