Course Overview

This course is full of energy and aimed at people with little or no understanding of git basics and want a more confidence and a deeper knowledge of this area. This course is highly recommended if you want to advance beyond the typical "edit-add-commit".

Course Prerequisites

Students should be familiar with general software development principles.

Outline

This course provides students with a thorough overview of working with GIT on a project. The course covers day-to-day usage as well as advanced topics.

Introduction, Principles and Fundamentals

• GIT installation and configuration
• Using GIT as a "Server"
• Git as a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) of commits.
• Difference between HEAD, index and working tree

Day to Day Git

• Developer's day-to-day GIT
• Crafting commits
• Understanding Branching and Merging (and how they differ from other VCs)
• Sharing your work
• Cloning
• Understanding Remotes
• Understand Fetching and Pushing

Git in a Team

• Different GIT collaboration strategies
• Discuss various GIT Workflows

Advanced Topics

• reverting your work
• Resetting: soft, mixed and hard
• Stashing your work
• (No-)fast-forward merge
• Rewriting history: Why? When? DOs and DON'Ts
• Amending commits
• Rebasing
• Interactive rebase
• Force push
• Unreachable commits and the reflog
• Garbage collection
• Bisecting

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