"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.

"I'm not going to lie to you; fugitive.vim may very well be the best Git wrapper of all time."

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

"In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a year ago, and which has turned out to be very successful. I’ve been meaning to write about it for a while now, but I’ve never really found the time to do so thoroughly, until now. I won’t talk about any of the projects’ details, merely about the branching strategy and release management." It's a detailed strategy, but well thought-through; I'm certainly going to bear some of this in mind in future (and, indeed, the way the release branches are handled is familiar).

"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.

Lovely way to generate pages for your github projects - and to do so as a branch of said project. Clever.

"The rest of this article will be a tutorial showing you how to host and manage Git repositories with access control, easily and safely. I use an up and coming tool called gitosis that my friend Tv wrote to help make hosting git repos easier and safer." Nice guide to getting up and running with gitosis.

"Here is a video which gives some insight into how Little Big Planet ( and Media Molecule! ) evolved from next to nothing into what it is today!" MediaMolecule put the LBP repository into codeswarm, and then published the video. Lovely.

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.

"Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master. I'm recording what I've figured out so far in these pages." Really excellent.

"[GitHub] is my kind of social software. You want to "friend me"? Send me a patch. Fork me." Nice post from Ryan Tomayko looking at GitHub from a slightly different angle.

A series of articles on source control best practice.

Colours svn/cvs diffs when you get them in your Thunderbird inbox. In a word: nice.

If you are doing scheduled builds or continuous integration, and those builds are visible to your client or boss or whoever, this should be painfully obvious, but even if you aren’t: the current version in source control is the current version, full sto

Because, you know, at some point I'm going to have to dive into using them quite hard...

Subversion packages - which don't require fink - for OSX

Need to go over this at some point