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+.. _git-resources:
+
+================
+ git_ resources
+================
+
+Tutorials and summaries
+=======================
+
+* `github help`_ has an excellent series of how-to guides.
+* `learn.github`_ has an excellent series of tutorials
+* The `pro git book`_ is a good in-depth book on git. 
+* A `git cheat sheet`_ is a page giving summaries of common commands.
+* The `git user manual`_ 
+* The `git tutorial`_
+* The `git community book`_
+* `git ready`_ - a nice series of tutorials
+* `git casts`_ - video snippets giving git how-tos.
+* `git magic`_ - extended introduction with intermediate detail
+* Fernando Perez' git page - `Fernando's git page`_ - many links and tips
+* A good but technical page on `git concepts`_
+* Th `git parable`_ is an easy read explaining the concepts behind git.
+* `git svn crash course`_: git_ for those of us used to subversion_
+
+Advanced git workflow
+=====================
+
+There are many ways of working with git_; here are some posts on the
+rules of thumb that other projects have come up with:
+
+* Linus Torvalds on `git management`_
+* Linus Torvalds on `linux git workflow`_ .  Summary; use the git tools
+  to make the history of your edits as clean as possible; merge from
+  upstream edits as little as possible in branches where you are doing
+  active development.
+
+Manual pages online
+===================
+
+You can get these on your own machine with (e.g) ``git help push`` or
+(same thing) ``git push --help``, but, for convenience, here are the
+online manual pages for some common commands:
+
+* `git add`_
+* `git branch`_
+* `git checkout`_
+* `git clone`_
+* `git commit`_
+* `git config`_
+* `git diff`_
+* `git log`_
+* `git pull`_
+* `git push`_
+* `git remote`_
+* `git status`_
+
+.. include:: git_links.inc