Git Overview

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Use Git to collaborate efficiently in a wide range of scenarios.

Git Workflow

• Git flow
• GitHub flow
• GitLab flow
• One Flow

Git Recommended Configuration

# Prevent automatic conversion CR LF
git config --global core.autocrlf false

# Prevent case-sensitive ignoring
git config --global core.ignorecase false

# Specify the default branch name as main
git config --global init.defaultBranch main

For SSH keys, check out Connecting to GitHub with SSH. It also works for other git systems, such as GitLab.

The .gitignore example can be found here.