git

A list of resources that may be helpful for those learning git:

• Dawid's task-oriented help: https://github.com/dweiss/lucene-git-guides
• git for computer scientists (a nice writeup on how git is essentially a graph of commits and labels attached to those commits): https://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
• git pro (book): https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2
• git workflows, their pros and cons: https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-a-good-git-workflow/

git blame

Git blame shows the last revision that touched a line in a given file. Certain reformatting commits may stand in the way here. Please issue the following command so that git ignores those irrelevant commits:

git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs