Collection of useful information about git

References

Quick Overview

• http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html a very nice interactive overview of the most important (and also quite advanced) commands
• http://byte.kde.org/~zrusin/git/git-cheat-sheet-medium.png a good print-out cheatsheet

Issues

Cloning the CMSSW git repository to T3 is very slow

This is because cloning does a lot of very small IO operations (almost worst case for the NFS); try to clone onto /scratch and then copy the entire directory to your home.

-- DanielMeister - 2013-06-11