Everything about Git

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: GitA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: GiT: Graph Interactive Transformer for Vehicle Re-IdentificationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Stone Butch BluesThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Gate Injection Transistor (GIT)—A Normally-Off AlGaN/GaN Power Transistor Using Conductivity ModulationCited 1,006 times
5. Go sideways: Distributed version controlA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Linux kernel version historyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Gate Injection Transistor (GIT)—A Normally-Off AlGaN/GaN Power Transistor Using Conductivity Modulation

  Yasuhiro Uemoto, Masahiro Hikita, Hiroaki Ueno · 2007 · IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices · 1,006 citations

• 1994 REPORT ON ZINNWALDITE ZW‐C ANALYSED BY NINETY‐TWO GIT‐IWG MEMBER‐LABORATORIES

  K. GOVINDARAJU, Ivan RUBESKA, Tomas PAUKERT · 1994 · Geostandards Newsletter · 693 citations

• Primary Gastrointestinal Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: I. Anatomic and Histologic Distribution, Clinical Features, and Survival Data of 371 Patients Registered in the German Multicenter Study GIT NHL 01/92

  Peter Koch, Francisco del Valle, Wolfgang E. Berdel · 2001 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 379 citations

• Mori dream spaces and GIT.

  Yi Hu, Sean Keel · 2000 · Michigan Mathematical Journal · 311 citations

• The GIT-Associated Kinase PAK Targets to the Centrosome and Regulates Aurora-A

  Zhuo-shen Zhao, Jet Phey Lim, Yuen-Wai Ng · 2005 · Molecular Cell · 214 citations

• The multifunctional GIT family of proteins

  Ryan J. Hoefen, Bradford C. Berk · 2006 · Journal of Cell Science · 209 citations

• Treatment Results in Localized Primary Gastric Lymphoma: Data of Patients Registered Within the German Multicenter Study (GIT NHL 02/96)

  Peter Koch, Andreas Probst, Wolfgang E. Berdel · 2005 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 205 citations

• Primary Gastrointestinal Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: II. Combined Surgical and Conservative or Conservative Management Only in Localized Gastric Lymphoma—Results of the Prospective German Multicenter Study GIT NHL 01/92

  Peter Koch, Francisco del Valle, Wolfgang E. Berdel · 2001 · Journal of Clinical Oncology · 181 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• GiT: Graph Interactive Transformer for Vehicle Re-Identification

  Fei Shen, Yi Xie, Jianqing Zhu · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Image Processing · 165 citations

• GIT-Mol: A multi-modal large language model for molecular science with graph, image, and text

  Pengfei Liu, Yiming Ren, Jun Tao · 2024 · Computers in Biology and Medicine · 88 citations

• GIT-Net: An Ensemble Deep Learning-Based GI Tract Classification of Endoscopic Images

  Hemalatha Gunasekaran, Krishnamoorthi Ramalakshmi, Deepa Kanmani Swaminathan · 2023 · Bioengineering · 70 citations

• Comparing the diagnostic performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus with QFT-GIT, T-SPOT.TB and TST: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Yu Zhang, Guozhong Zhou, Wei Shi · 2023 · BMC Infectious Diseases · 37 citations

• Adhesion properties of cell surface proteins in Lactobacillus strains in the GIT environment

  Yixing Yu, Manli Zong, Lifeng Lao · 2022 · Food & Function · 32 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Stone Butch BluesLeslie Feinberg · 1993
• The hoursMichael Cunningham · 1998
• The MasterColm Tóibín · 2004
• The Book of SaltMonique T. D. Truong · 2003
• Version control with GitJon Loeliger · 2009
• AffinitySarah Waters · 1999
• Pro GitScott Chacon, Ben Straub · 2009
• More of This World or Maybe AnotherBarb Johnson · 2009

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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