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The O'Reilly "In a Nutshell" and "Pocket Guide to" books are great for folks who can already code, and want to pick up a related tool or a new language.
The Pocket Guide to Git is an obvious choice in your situation, if you don't already have it.
As others have mentioned, you're allowed to ignore the team stuff. In git this means you have my permission to commit directly to the 'main' branch, particularly while you're learning.
Lessons that I've learned the hard way, that apply for someone scripting alone:
git
will save your ass. Get in the habit of using if for everything ASAP, and it'll be there when you need itgit
, and keep them close. Usually listening politely to them wax poetically about git will do the trick. Five minutes of their time can be a real life saver later. As that friend, I know when you're using me for my git-fu, and I don't mind. It's hard for me to make friends, perhaps because I constantly wax poetically about git.Along a similar vain to making a git friend, buy your sysadmins/ops people a box of doughnuts once in a while. They (generally) all code and will have some knowledge of what you are working on.
That is great advice that has served me well, as well!