Useful git commands

High level git overview

Check out this high-level overview of git and how it is different from the likes of svn:

http://files.zend.com/help/Zend-Studio/git_and_github.htm

Commands

If you want to make a patch from one commit (K1.6 -> K2.0), you can do it like this:

git show 1990134b2d599a9c879d > ../joomla17.patch

Tagging a release:

git tag -a 2.0.1 -m 'Tagging Kunena 2.0.1 release'
git push upstream --tags

Scripts

Here is a tiny little helper that was used to convert various sub-projects from our prior svn trunk structure into git:

https://github.com/fxstein/migration/blob/master/clone.sh