Note
This documentation is for a development version of IPython. There may be significant differences from the latest stable release (0.13.2).
There are many ways of working with git; here are some posts on the rules of thumb that other projects have come up with:
You can get these on your own machine with (e.g) git help push or (same thing) git push --help, but, for convenience, here are the online manual pages for some common commands: