Visual Studio: Source Control with Git and GitHub

Course details

Prefer working with an IDE instead of the command line? Discover how to use Git, the defacto distributed source control tool, effectively within Visual Studio. Throughout this course, instructor Walt Ritscher delves into the mapping between Git and GitHub commands and the tools in Visual Studio. After going over key Git concepts, commands, and GUI tools, Walt shows how to initialize a new repository with PowerShell, Visual Studio, and GitHub. He then shows how to add, rename, move and delete files; add a remote repository; clone and fork a repository; and view and handle merge conflicts. Plus, see how to work with branches, create, review and compare pull requests, and more.

Topics include:
- Initializing a repository with PowerShell and Visual Studio
- Adding, renaming, moving, and deleting files
- Connecting to GitHub and other remote servers
- Cloning and forking repositories
- Committing, pushing, and undoing changes
- Rolling back to a prior commit
- Viewing and handling merge conflicts
- Setting up a public repository on GitHub
- Creating a pull request
- Marking milestones with Git tags

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Use Git effectively within Visual Studio
02 - Install Git
03 - Install GitHub Extension in Visual Studio
04 - Work with multiple users in the exercise files.

1. The Command Line vs. Visual Tools

05 - Don t be afraid of the GUI
06 - Tour of Git GUI tools
07 - Git concepts and commands

2. Create a Repo from a Local Computer

08 - Initialize a new repository - PowerShell
09 - Initialize a new repository - VS folder
10 - Initialize a new repository - VS solution
11 - Initialize a new repository - GitHub
12 - Add files - PowerShell
13 - Add files - VS
14 - Rename files - PowerShell
15 - Move files - PowerShell
16 - Delete files - PowerShell
17 - File operations - VS

3. Connect to GitHub and Other Remote Servers

18 - Add a remote repository - PowerShell
19 - Install Git Credential Manager for Windows
20 - Connect and authenticate - PowerShell
21 - Connect and authenticate - VS
22 - Create an empty GitHub repo - VS
23 - Sync existing local remote to GitHub
24 - Examine GitHub configuration information

4. Git Concepts and Commands

25 - Collaborate with shared repositories
26 - Understand when to clone a repository
27 - Understand when to fork a repository

5. Collaborate on an Existing Repo

28 - Clone the repo - PowerShell
29 - Clone the repo - VS
30 - Fork a repo
31 - Clone a forked repo

6. Push and Pull

32 - Change the PowerShell command prompt
33 - Show the Git help files from the command prompt
34 - Commit to local - VS
35 - Push to remote - VS
36 - Commit and push - VS
37 - Undo changes
38 - Show history with Git log - PowerShell
39 - Show history in Team Explorer
40 - Compare differences - VS
41 - When to use revert or reset
42 - Rollback to prior commit with revert
43 - Rollback a local repo with reset

7. Sync Tools

44 - Push to remote by team member
45 - Pull and push
46 - Use Fetch or Pull to sync with remote
47 - Sync - VS
48 - View merge conflicts
49 - Handle merge conflicts

8. Work with Branches

50 - Explore the basic branch actions - PowerShell
51 - Explore the branch tools in Visual Studio
52 - Basic branch actions - VS
53 - Commit changes to another branch
54 - Merge changes into the master

9. Pull Requests and GitHub

55 - Setup a public repository on GitHub
56 - Fork and clone the repository
57 - Verify forked project runs on computer
58 - Change the HTML in fork
59 - Commit and push to fork
60 - Create the pull request
61 - Review and compare the pull request
62 - Have a conversation with contributors

10. Other Operations

63 - GitHub tools
64 - Mark milestons with Git tags

Next Steps

65 - Next steps