Git for Developers

Part of our "DevOps" courses

1 day

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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

Private Events

Is your team in need of a Git for Developers course?

This course is only available on-site (and not online)

Send us a message, and we'll get in touch, without any obligation.

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This Git for Developers course looks very interesting, I do however have a question