Git Essential Training: The Basics (2019)

Course details

Learn how to use Git, the popular open-source version control software, to manage the source code for almost any project. In this course, Kevin Skoglund explores the fundamental concepts behind version control systems and the Git architecture. Using a step-by-step approach, he shows how to install Git and presents the commands that enable efficient code management. Learn how to add, change, and delete files in the repository; view a log of previous commits; and compare versions of a file. Plus, see how to undo changes to files and ignore certain files in a Git repository.

Learning objectives
Exploring the history of version control
Installing Git on Mac, Windows, and Linux
Initializing a repository
Writing useful commit messages
The Git three-tree architecture
Tracking when files are added, edited, deleted, or moved
Viewing change sets and comparing versions
Undoing changes and retrieving previous versions
Ignoring changes to select files

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Use Git version control software to manage project code

1. What Is Git

02 - Version control
03 - The history behind Git
04 - About distributed version control

2. Install Git

05 - Install Git on a Mac
06 - Install Git on Windows
07 - Install Git on Linux
08 - Basic Git configuration
09 - Git auto-completion
10 - Git help

3. Getting Started

11 - Initialize a repository
12 - Where Git files are stored
13 - Your first commit
14 - Write a commit message
15 - View the commit log

4. Git Concepts and Architecture

16 - The three trees
17 - Git workflows
18 - Hash values (SHA-1)
19 - The HEAD pointer

5. Make Changes to Files

20 - Add files
21 - Edit files
22 - View changes with diff
23 - View only staged changes
24 - Delete files
25 - Move and rename files

6. Use Git with a Real Project

26 - The Explore California website
27 - Initialize Git
28 - View file edits
29 - Stage and commit shortcut
30 - View a commit
31 - Compare commits
32 - Multiline commit messages
33 - Make atomic commits
34 - Challenge - Client edits
35 - Solution - Client edits

7. Undo Changes

36 - Undo working directory changes
37 - Unstage files
38 - Amend commits
39 - Retrieve old versions
40 - Revert a commit
41 - Remove untracked files

8. Ignore Files

42 - Use .gitignore files
43 - Ideas on what to ignore
44 - Globally ignore files
45 - Ignore tracked files
46 - Track empty directories

Conclusion

47 - Next steps