Git for Philosophers

A basic introduction to the revision control system Git for non-programmers, specifically for using Git as a way to collaborate on document writing.

The guide is written in Markdown, the file is git4phi.md, and can be read here. You can download the latest release, including a printable PDF version, here

It is written by Richard Zach

You should feel free to copy & use this as long as you abide by the CC-BY license.

The default branch has been renamed to main. If you have cloned this repository before this change, you will have to do this in your local repository:

git branch -m master main
git fetch origin
git branch -u origin/main main
git remote set-head origin -a