The goal of this document is not to be a tutorial but rather to point people to interesting material that has already been written.

• "INSTALL"

• "Installing from Source" in the Pro Git book

• The top of the Makefile, for special "Makefile knobs"

• "My First Contribution"

• "My First Object Walk"

• Matheus' tutorial

• "Hacking Git" in the Git User's Manual

• "Documentation/technical", technical documentation (also viewable at https://git-scm.com/docs/<file-name-without-.txt>)

• "CodingGuidelines"

• "SubmittingPatches"

• Git for Windows' "Good commits"

• "A note from the maintainer"

• "Large-Merging Workflows" in the Pro Git book

• gitworkflows manual page

• "How to maintain Git"

• "How the Creators of Git do Branching", and the associated gitworkflow repository

• Git for Windows' Debugging Git

• Launching GDB explanations in CodingGuidelines

• Philippe Blain's "Debugging Git" Gist

• "t/README"