The Complete Git Guide: Understand and master Git and GitHub
Why take this course?
🚀 The Complete Git Guide: Master Git & GitHub 🚀
Are you ready to dive deep into the world of version control with Git and its powerful hosting platform, GitHub? This is the ultimate course for beginners and experienced developers alike who want to master the ins and outs of Git. With 23 HOURS of engaging content, this comprehensive guide is tailored to take you from a novice to a Git expert! 🛠️
Course Instructor: Bogdan Stashchuk | Software Engineer, MBA, PhD
Course Overview:
Understand HOW Git works and learn all Git features from basic commits to squashing and rebasing. This course will equip you with a solid grasp of Git internals and practical experience using multiple practice activities. 🧪➡️🔧
What You'll Learn:
- Git Internals: Dive into the structure of a Git repository, learning about blobs, trees, annotated tags, and SHA1 hashes.
- Git Objects: Discover how Git handles its objects and references, and how to create new Git objects without relying on
git commitandgit add. - Git Workflow: Explore alternative workflows, checking out new objects directly to your working directory or staging area.
- Practice Activities: Engage with hands-on practice that covers initializing a new Git repository, making changes, branching, merging, resolving conflicts, and more!
[Checklist]
- Initialize new Git repository
- Make changes, add them to staging area and commit
- Create branches, checkout branches and merge branches
- Perform fast-forward and 3-way merges of the branches
- Resolve merge conflicts
- Move into detached HEAD state and make experimental commits there
- Perform rebasing of the branches with squashing
GitHub Features:
You'll also learn to navigate GitHub with ease, from connecting local and remote repositories, pushing and pulling, opening and merging pull requests, adding tags, creating forks, to performing rebases with squashing. 🌐🔗
- Connect local and remote repositories
- Pushing, fetching, and pulling operations
- Open Pull Request
- Merge Pull Request
- Add software versions using Git Tags
- Create forks from other repositories
- Contribute to public repositories using forks and pull requests
- Perform rebasing with squashing
Tools of the Trade:
This course isn't just theoretical; you'll get hands-on experience with popular GUI applications like GitHub Desktop, SourceTree, and Visual Studio Code. These tools will simplify routine operations and help you stay efficient. 🖥️✨
Why Take This Course?
- Lifetime Access: Get access to nearly 200 lectures and tens of practical exercises that you can revisit anytime.
- Become a Git Guru: With the knowledge and practice, you'll become a confident and capable Git and GitHub user.
- Understand Git: It's not just about doing; it's about understanding why and how things work in the world of Git.
- 30-days Money-Back Guarantee: We're so confident in the quality of this course that we offer a full refund, no questions asked, within 30 days of purchase.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to master Git and GitHub, two of the most essential tools in any developer's toolkit. 🌟 Join now and elevate your software development skills to the next level! 🚀
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Our Verdict
The Complete Git Guide: Understand and Master Git and GitHub is an incredibly thorough course that delves deep into both beginner and advanced Git features while emphasizing understanding of Git's underlying mechanisms. However, a small number of students find its pace slow, presentation quality lacking, or longwinded in some areas without providing enough practical use cases. Nonetheless, those serious about mastering Git and GitHub will likely reap significant benefits from this course thanks to its comprehensive curriculum.
What We Liked
- Comprehensive coverage of Git and GitHub features, including advanced operations like rebasing, merging, squashing, cherry-picking, amending, and reverting commits
- Instructor emphasizes understanding Git's internal workings, complemented with diagrams and explanations to enhance learning experience
- Uses various graphical user interfaces (GitHub Desktop, SourceTree, Visual Studio Code) in addition to command line interface
- Valuable insights gained from real-world use cases and best practices
Potential Drawbacks
- Some users find the course overly detailed with regard to internal Git workings without focusing enough on practical use cases
- Presentation quality raised concerns among a few users, emphasizing the need for improvements in this area
- A minority of students mention slow pacing and repetitiveness; however, most seem to find value in the overall content