Productive version control with Git

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The version control system is one of the essential tools for a software professional and the most popular version control system today is Git. You’ll greatly favor yourself and your whole team by understanding it and learning to use it effectively.

Goals

• Strong understanding of Git basics

• Git and distributed version control don’t scare you anymore

• Understanding what you can do with Git and what not

• Solid skills to explore Git further on your own

Target group

• Anyone who wants to understand Git and version control. Even complete version control newbies are warmly welcome!

• Git users who wish to go deeper

• Git users who want to build up the self-confidence to teach others

• Anyone considering migrating to Git

Contents

• Introduction

  • What is a version control system and distributed version control system?

  • What is Git?

• Basic operations

  • Creating a repository

  • Working tree

  • Creating commits 

  • Staging area

  • Revisions

• Branches and how to use them efficiently

  • Merging branches

  • Rebasing branches

  • Working with branches

• Remote operations

  • What are remotes

  • Clone

  • Fetch vs. pull

  • What creates conflicts

• Tips and best practices

  • Tips about using Git

  • Questions and answers about the subjects of the course

Prerequisites

You’ll need a laptop with a recent version of Git and Gitk installed. During the course, we’ll be using Git from the command line. We’ll also use Gitk, a graphical Git repository browser. These can be downloaded for most platforms from git-scm.com.

The course takes one workday.

Contact

If you are interested in this course or have particular questions about the topic, please contact:
Jussi Salovaara.
jussi.salovaara@omoroi.fi
+358401632424