Hopefully, no one needs to sell you on GitHub – the world’s largest open source community. GitHub is home for most developers – a fast flexible social environment to build personal projects, support enterprises and collaborate on open source technologies.

The underpinnings of GitHub is Git – a free, open source, cross-platform and highly productive distributed version control system. GitHub conveniently wraps all of Git’s features into polished UI tools for your chosen development platform, namely:

• GitHub for Windows: https://windows.github.com
• GitHub for Mac: https://mac.github.com

But you are a geek. And what appeals more to your inner nerdiness than pure text on a bland terminal window. Nothing like passer-by’s not having a clue as to what you are up to! Everything you do through the GitHub UI tools, first began life as command line tools via the the Git CLI. And it is incredibly powerful.

This article doesn’t have screenshots and memes. Instead it aims to be a straight up cheat sheet of Git CLI commands. The best news is that all of the commands work the exact same way on Linux, Mac OS/OSX and Windows.

Full article over @ Telerik Developer Network.