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michaelliao/learngit
教程→ https://liaoxuefeng.com/books/git/ 推送请使用UTF-8编码
A companion repo for liaoxuefeng's popular Chinese Git tutorial, used as a live sandbox where readers practice submitting their first pull request. The actual tutorial lives at liaoxuefeng.com; this repo exists purely so beginners have a real target to fork, edit, and PR against.
The concept is sound — having a dedicated practice target is better than telling beginners to PR against a real project and embarrass themselves. It has accumulated thousands of forks, which means the PR workflow is genuinely exercised at scale. The tutorial it supports is well-regarded in the Chinese-speaking developer community and covers Git concepts thoroughly.
The repo itself contains no code, no tooling, and no educational content — it is a dumping ground of dated .txt files organized by month. With 3,258 forks and 499 stars, the fork-to-star ratio reveals most visitors never come back after the tutorial exercise. There is no automation to validate PRs, no CI, and no structure that would help a beginner learn anything beyond the mechanical click-through of opening a PR.