Use Git Like a Pro by Pearson

Course details

Discover the fundamentals of Git and GitHub to leverage their power throughout the entire software development lifecycle. In this course, learn essential skills for your day-to-day work along with strategies for version control, Git branching, and commits, as well as advanced techniques such as commit amending, rebasing, squashing, creating pull requests, and more. Along the way, gather insights for effective collaboration, version handling, and project management on software development teams.

Concepts

Introduction

How to use Git like a pro

Getting Started with Git

Learning objectives
Learn about version control
Get familiar with Git and GitHub
Learn Git terminologies
Set up and install Git
Learn Git configurations
Create and clone repositories
Push an existing project to GitHub
Summary and exercise

Working with Git

Learning objectives
Understand Git workflow
Add and commit files to Git repo
Learn about the git log command
Fetch and pull
Learn Git aliases
Summary and exercise

Discovering Commits

Learning objectives
Create perfect commits
Amend commits
Write proper commit messages
Use the Git diff command
Summary and exercise

Undoing Changes

Learning objectives
Learn Git checkout command
Use Git restore
Use Git reset
Learn Git revert
Summary and exercise

Discovering Branches and Tags

Learning objectives
Understand branches
Understand head
Learn Git branch commands
Understand Git tags
Summary and exercise
Understand branching strategies

Merging and Rebasing

Learning objectives
Merging theory and concepts
Merging in practice
Rebase theory and concepts
Rebase in practice
Merging vs. rebasing
Create pull requests
Summary and exercise

Learning Git Advanced

Learning objectives
Learn Git stash
Squashing commits
Learn interactive rebase
Learn Git reflog
Summary and exercise

Conclusion

Summary and next steps