git help
git help <command>
cat .git/config

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/

See Mercurial <=> Git Command comparison

hg	git	comment
hg branches	git branch [-a]
hg commit -m 'msg'	git commit -a -m 'msg'	from trial / alternative: git add …; git commit
hg glog	git log –graph
hg glog -v	git log –name-only
hg init	git init	from trial
hg pull -u	git pull [url]	URL may be specified, otherwise remot tracking thing is used?
hg push -r	git push	did not work without -r / To be investigated
hg status; hg outgoing	git status
hg uptdate …	git checkout …

Example: Using SSH from within the remote home dir

git clone ssh://[user@]host/~user/tmp/igit igitigit

See git help clone (also for valid URL formats)

git branch shows existing local branches, while git branch -r causes the „remote-tracking“ branches to be listed, and option -a shows both. See git-branch

With Git it is not possible to directly swich to a different branch on a cloned repository like in Mercurial. Instead first you have to create a new (local) branch wich „tracks“ the specified remote brach, eg. (origin/stable) and then checkout (=update) this branch to your working directory. The following command does both steps at once:

git checkout -b stable origin/stable

Now you can pull all needed updates whenever a new release is made:

git pull

See also

• Probably good intro
• Mercurial Tips — Subversion Tips — CVS Tips
• man gittutorial
• Git User's Manual
• 10 things I hate about Git
• Think Like (a) Git