Git Mastery: Beginner to Expert with GitHub & GitLab

Master Git & GitHub/GitLab/Azure DevOps: The Complete Guide

Learn Git from Scratch to Advanced Techniques

This comprehensive course provides a thorough understanding of Git, the industry-standard version control system, and its popular hosting platforms: GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps. No prior experience is needed – we start with the fundamentals and build up to advanced concepts. Become proficient in repository management and team collaboration with Git.

What You'll Learn:

• Git Fundamentals: Understand core concepts like staging, committing, branching, and merging.
• Essential Git Commands: Master commonly used commands including git add, git commit, git push, git pull, git status, git log, git cherry-pick, git checkout, and more. Learn to create and manage .gitignore files, and set up authentication (HTTPS vs. SSH).
• Advanced Git Techniques: Dive deep into Git internals with topics like Submodules, Subtrees, dotfiles repositories, and Git Aliases.
• Repository Information Retrieval: Gain expertise in retrieving information from existing repositories using powerful commands like git log, git tag, git reflog, git show, git diff, git grep, git blame, git bisect, and git shortlog.
• Visualizing Repositories: Explore tools like Gitstats, gitk, and GitKraken to visualize your repository history.
• GitHub Mastery: Learn to manage GitHub personal repositories and organizations/teams. Master Pull Requests, permissions, issue linking, labels, and automated project boards using GitHub Actions. Set up GitHub Wiki and GitHub Pages and enhance security with Dependabot and CodeQL.
• GitLab Expertise: Cover GitLab features including Merge Requests, permissions (personal & groups), issues & labels, forking, project boards & milestones, wiki & code snippets, CI/CD pipelines, GitLab Pages, and the Web IDE.
• Azure DevOps & Bitbucket: Gain familiarity with the core concepts of Git hosting on Azure DevOps and Bitbucket.
• Workflow Management: Implement effective workflows including Solo Development, Feature Branches, Gitflow (Long-Running Branches), and Trunk-Based Development.
• Commit Message Best Practices: Learn to write clear and concise commit messages, including structuring them with a subject and body, and linking them to issues and pull requests.
• Git Hooks: Automate development processes with pre-commit, post-commit, commit-msg, and pre-push hooks.
• Git LFS: Manage large files effectively using Git Large File Storage (LFS).
• Git Integration with VS Code: Utilize the GitLens extension for enhanced code insights and Git functionality within Visual Studio Code.

Course Structure:

The course is divided into 12 chapters, each with detailed explanations, practical exercises, and animated slides for better understanding. You'll receive a valuable 30-page Cheat Sheet to reference throughout your Git journey.

Commands Covered:

• git add
• git bisect
• git blame
• git branch
• git checkout
• git cherry-pick
• git clean
• git clone
• git commit
• git config
• git diff
• git grep
• git fetch
• git gc
• git gui
• git init
• git log
• git ls-files
• git merge
• git merge-base
• git merge-file
• git mergetool
• git mv
• git pull
• git push
• git rebase
• git reflog
• git remote
• git reset
• git restore
• git rev-list
• git revert
• git rm
• git shortlog
• git show
• git stage
• git status
• git submodule
• git subtree
• git switch
• git tag

Tools You'll Use:

• GitHub Desktop