Git for Perforce users

Question

I\'ve been using Perforce for a number of years. I\'d like to switch to using git for my personal code, but all of the git tutorials that I\'ve seen either assume that you\'

Answer 1

I don't have enough p4 experience to produce an actual cheat sheet, but there are at least some similarities to fall back on. A p4 "changeset" is a git "commit".

Changes to your local work space get added to the "index" with git add, and the index later gets committed with git commit. So the index is your pending changelist, for all intents and purposes.

You look at changes with git diff and git status, where git diff usually shows changes between the workspace and the index, but git diff --cached shows changes between the index and the repository (= your pending changelist).

For more in depth information, I recommend http://progit.org/book/. Since you know version control in general, you can probably skim a lot of it and extract the git-specific information...