GIT: Branching and Merging

🚀 Master GIT Branching & Merging with Confidence! 🌱

Course Overview:

Welcome to the "GIT: Branching and Merging" course, your comprehensive guide to mastering one of the most fundamental aspects of software development version control using GIT and GitHub. This course is designed for beginners and intermediate users who want to solidify their understanding of branching and merging. By the end of this course, you'll be proficient in navigating through branches, updating them, and resolving conflicts both locally and on GitHub.

What You Will Learn:

• 🌟 Branch Creation & Management: Discover how to create, list, and delete branches effectively, keeping your local and remote repositories organized and up-to-date.
• 🤝 Collaboration with Teams: Learn the ins and outs of working with multiple developers using Pull Requests, ensuring that team changes are seamlessly integrated.
• 🛠️ Conflict Resolution: Gain the skills to confidently handle merge conflicts when they arise, both on your own machine and on GitHub.
• ✅ Best Practices & Workflows: Understand the best practices for branching strategies, ensuring that your workflow is as efficient as possible.

Why Command Line Skills Matter:

While there are many graphical tools available to manage GIT repositories, command line knowledge is crucial. It's the foundation upon which these tools are built. Knowing the commands allows you to troubleshoot effectively and adapt to any environment or toolset. In this course, we won't just scratch the surface; we'll dive into a deep understanding of key GIT commands that will form the backbone of your version control skills.

Key Commands Covered:

• git add
• git commit
• git push
• git pull
• git fetch
• git status
• git log
• git show
• git checkout
• git diff
• git difftool
• git merge
• git mergetool
• git config

Setting Up Your Development Environment:

We will guide you through setting up a default tool for resolving conflicts and viewing diffs, using Visual Studio Code in this course. However, you'll learn how to configure any tool of your choice, such as Perforce P4Merge, should you prefer an alternative.

Your Path to Mastery:

This course is just the beginning of your journey to becoming a GIT expert. While we won't master every command here, you'll gain a solid foundation and the confidence to take your knowledge further on your own. After completing this course, you'll have the tools and understanding necessary to tackle more advanced topics in version control with GIT.

Enroll now and take the first step towards becoming a GIT wizard! 🧙‍♂️🔢 Whether you're working solo or collaborating with teams, "GIT: Branching and Merging" is your key to unlocking the full potential of GIT and GitHub. Let's embark on this journey together and turn complex branching scenarios into a breeze! 🎉

Sign Up Today and transform the way you manage code versions for life! 🌟