Git Basics- In Theory and Practice

Git Basics: In Theory and Practice, available at $19.99, has an average rating of 3.75, with 31 lectures, based on 13 reviews, and has 298 subscribers.

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Summary

Title: Git Basics: In Theory and Practice

Price: $19.99

Average Rating: 3.75

Number of Lectures: 31

Number of Published Lectures: 31

Number of Curriculum Items: 31

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 31

Original Price: $19.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

The normal Git workflow

How to collaborate with your team members using Git

Productivity tips

Also, how to save your bacon with Git!

Who Should Attend

Target Audiences

Have you heard of Git? Have you been wondering what all the buzz is about? Have you heard about all the open source software projects moving to Github? Have you been thinking that its time to give Git a try yourself? We think it is too, and we think this course will help.

This course is a different approach to learning Git than, say, reading online documentation or buying a book on Git because youll see not only how Git works, but how you should work with Git. Well show you the situations that you probably find yourself in as a developer all the time and how Git can help you work faster, work with more confidence, and save yourself and your teammates time by supporting a good workflow. Well show you how Git works in practice, and also how to practice Git.

Session One: Git and You

In this first session well cover getting started with Git and daily workflow which will become second nature to you. Well get it in your fingers. Not only that, but all the operations well use Git for will be completely local to our own systems.

One of the things that first piques peoples interest in Git is that its distributed. They wonder what that means and how it affects them. In later sessions well understand the answers to questions about the distributed nature of Git, but one side effect of it is that many of Gits operations are completely local to your own computer. A Git repository can live out a useful and completely local life all on one computer, and well see that side of working with Git.

When this session is complete youll understand:

Theory:

What does Git do?

Who came up with Git, and who works on it?

How Git keeps a history of your project over time

How Git stores your files

What are all those really long strings of letters and numbers?

How a Git repository is structured

What is Gits index for?

The components of Git: trees, refs, and blobs

Practice:

Working with files in Git

The standard workflow when committing changes to the repository

Commits in Git

Working with git log

Querying the Git repository

How to get help on Git

Session Two: Git and Your Team

Git has no particular need to work with any repository than the local one on your computer, unlike many other version control systems but that wouldnt be very fun would it? Git really becomes useful when you and your team members use it to facilitate collaborating on a project. Well start to understand what it means that Git is distributed.

One of the first things people wonder when they hear that Git is distributed, or that Git doesnt need a central server, is Can I still have a central server for my team?. Of course you can, and many teams still work the same way they have with other versioning systems. Well see how to do that as well as share changes with another computer directly. Well set up an account on Github and use that to learn how to deal with remote repositories.

Well also learn about very important concept in version control systems: branching. Git makes branching so easy that its time to learn how you should be integrating branching into your workflow.

When this session is complete youll understand:

Theory:

What are remotes?

What are some strategies for collaboration with Git?

How does Git transfer changes?

How does pulling changes work?

How does branching work in Git?

What does rebase do?

What is the Git stash?

How does tagging work in Git?

Practice:

Cloning a repository

Pushing, pulling, and fetching changes

Creating branches

Pushing and pulling from branches

Setting up a tracking branch

Merging and dealing with conflicts

How and when to rebase

Seeing who did what with git blame

Session Three: Git in the Real World

Session three is all about the how Git works and how you work with Git out there in the wild.

Chances are you first heard about Git and Github almost in the same sentence. In fact sometimes its easy to forget that Github is just a logical extension to Git itself.

Github is a wildly popular way to host and collaborate on Open Source software projects using Git. Some of the most important software tools you may use every day are now hosted or mirrored on Github, such as Rails, jQuery, or Postgres. Githubs unique philosophy on forking, or branching off developement on a software project, makes it easy for anyone to contribute to their favorite open source tools. Well dig deeper into how to work with Github.

Next well go over a whole list of interesting tools Git gives you work a lot faster. Interactive adding, adding using patch mode, interactive merging, and some advanced logging and querying techniques for finding exactly whats been going on in your repository.

Well also cover a very important topic in software development: screwing things up. Not only do we often really mess up the project were working on, we can also make mistakes in Git itself. Luckily Git is there to help with both of those kinds of problems. Git provides ways to not only commit changes, which is helpful in itself to any software project, but also to fix, reorder, play back, cherry pick, and recover lost commits.

When this session is complete youll understand:

Theory:

How can I get exactly what I want out of the log?

How can I find exactly what I want in the repo?

What is the reflog and what does it do?

Does the repository require any maintenance?

How does forking work on Github?

How can I stay up to date with the original repository?

How do I submit my commits back to the original repository?

Practice:

git add -i

git rebase -i

git commit –amend

git reset, hard and soft

git revert

git cherry-pick

git gc

git reflog

Forking a repository on Github

Submitting a pull request on Github

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1: Installing Git For Mac

Lecture 2: Installing Git For Windows

Lecture 3: Editing commit messages with Vim

Chapter 2: Session One: Git and You

Lecture 1: Session One Introduction

Lecture 2: Diving Right In

Lecture 3: What Is Git?

Lecture 4: The Git Workflow

Lecture 5: Working With Git: Commands and Configuration

Lecture 6: Under The Hood

Lecture 7: Session Recap

Lecture 8: Session One Slides

Chapter 3: Session Two: Git and Your Team

Lecture 1: Session Two Introduction

Lecture 2: Diving Right In To Remotes

Lecture 3: Remote Workflow

Lecture 4: Working With Git

Lecture 5: Branching

Lecture 6: Branching In Action

Lecture 7: Under The Hood: Remotes and Branches

Lecture 8: Session Two Recap

Lecture 9: Session Two Slides

Chapter 4: Session Three: Git in the Real World

Lecture 1: Session Three Introduction

Lecture 2: Git Productivity Tools Part I

Lecture 3: Git Productivity Tools Part II: Interactive Add Demo

Lecture 4: Git Productivity Tools Part III

Lecture 5: Fixing Things Part I

Lecture 6: Fixing Things Part II: Reflog And Fsck Demo

Lecture 7: Fixing Things Part III: GC And Recap

Lecture 8: Github Part I

Lecture 9: Github Part II: Forking Demo

Lecture 10: Github Part III: Recap

Lecture 11: Session Three Slides

Instructors

Tony Hillerson
Nerd Extraordinaire

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3 stars: 3 votes

4 stars: 3 votes

5 stars: 3 votes

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