"The (for now) final end product seems incredibly obvious. And popular.

Yet it took decades of iterative innovation, from some of the cleverest minds in the field, to make something so apparently simple yet powerful.

And every step was astonishing." This is great stuff from Francis.

Some good stuff here; the tips on the stash were new to me, and particularly handy.

"Tig provides a simple command-line yet visual interface to Git." An explanation of what Tig does, and why you might find it useful.

"Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands."

A useful guide, although perhaps more detailed than you'd normally need. Still, clear instructions for handling reverting changes in git.

Daily git tips. So far, they've all been rather handy, and given they're nice and short makes recommending this as a subscription easy.

A nice simple explanation of what using Git is really like.

Great for designers, or anyone else with no knowledge of version control, but a not-half-bad introduction to Git at the same time.

GitCasts: screencasts about git. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

A series of articles on source control best practice.

"All it takes is a single call to Rake and you're backed up on Amazon's redundant, secure systems."