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Git Crash Course

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This one-day workshop will familiarize you with Git fundamentals. Lots of practical exercises and tricks will make you more effective working with the most popular version control system on the planet. Learn how to organize your daily work with Git and become proficient with branching and merging, resetting and rebasing, creating pull requests and forking, stashing and making partial commits as well as many more useful tools that Git has.

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What's Inside

Introduction

  • Git history
  • Git architecture and components
  • Installing Git and setting up environment

Working with local repository

  • Creating empty repository with git init
  • Staging changes with git add
  • Creating history records with git commit
  • Checking working tree with git status
  • Checking history with git log and git diff
  • Temporarily postponing changes with git stash
  • Controlling Git behavior with git config and .gitattributes
  • Excluding files in .gitignore and .gitkeep
  • Going "back in time" with git checkout
  • Reverting changes with git revert
  • Cleaning working tree with git clean
  • Forgetting history with git reset
  • Rewriting history with git rebase

Collaborating on code

  • Retrieving remote repository with git clone
  • Controlling remote repository location with git remote
  • Retrieving remote changes with git fetch and git pull
  • Sending local changes to remote repository with git push
  • Resolving conflicts

Branching and merging

  • Creating and switching between local branches with git checkout
  • Pushing branches to remote repository with git push
  • Listing local and remote branches with git branch
  • Merging branches with git merge
  • Rebasing vs merging
  • Deleting branches

Git work flows

  • Feature branches
  • GitFlow: master, develop, release, feature
  • Forks and pull/merge requests

Additional topics

  • Git LFS
  • Git hooks: client/server, validation, encryption
  • Git client overview: TortoiseGit, SourceTree, Intellij IDEA
  • Git service overview: GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket

What You Get

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Unique content - real-life use cases, modern infrastructure, CI/CD/GitOps principles shown in practice.

certificate

Certificate of attendance - you will get a shareable online certificate.

exam

Exam after the course - you may pass an optional 1-hour exam and get your score printed on the certificate.

video-call

Workshop happens online - join from the convenience of your office or home.

video-recording

Video recordings will be available after the course - you can revisit some topics later.

live

Live and interactive - you can ask questions in the chat or over audio and get live clarifications.

qa

Q&A session in the end of each day - you will to get answers to more complex questions in a 1-hour long Q&A session.

quiz

Quizzes and polls during the course - learning should be fun!

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Practical exercises with solutions - lots of simple and not-so-simple tasks to practice with during the course; Solutions will be provided afterwards.

home

Additional home work - for those who want to practice more after the course; Homework will be reviewed and supplemented by constructive feedback.

email

Lifetime e-mail support - you can get answers on anything related to the course content as well as advice based on your company specific situation.

Andrey Adamovich

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Andrey works as a free-lance DevOps consultant offering his expertise in implementing DevOps initiatives, selecting automation tooling, switching to infrastructure-as-code and immutable infrastructure and constructing software delivery pipelines.

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Price includes all materials and cloud infrastructure usage.

If training workshop happens on client premises then trainer's traveling expenses will be added to the final price.

VAT charges may apply.

All training courses are a subject to the cancellation policy.

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