Git and GitHub LiveLessons (Workshop)

English | .FLV | aac, 44100 Hz, stereo | h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 30.00 fps(r) | 2.81GB

Genre: E-learning

4+ Hours of Video Instruction

Git and GitHub LiveLessons (Workshop) is a fast-paced, engaging video course that teaches developers the essentials of Git and GitHub. You will learn the key commands to quickly become productive using Git and best practices for using GitHub to collaborate with your team.

Description

Featuring live, step-by-step demonstrations, the lessons in this workshop cover:

Concise configurations-configuring just what you need to get the best out of Git

Your first repo-initializing a repo, three stage thinking, working with the staging area

Sharing your work-creating and configuring a GitHub repository

Additional activities-moving, deleting and ignoring files with Git

Building with branches-how to use feature branches effectively to work on projects. Includes merge types, merge conflicts and rebasing before merging

GitHub workflows-using clones, forks, feature branches and pull requests to collaborate effectively via GitHub

Releasing software-release tags, release branches and release workflows

How to undo anything-learn a range of powerful techniques, from git commit -amend through revert, reset, rebase -interactive and the famed reflog!

About the Instructor

Peter Bell is a contract member of the GitHub training team and presents internationally on using Git and GitHub effectively. He's also the co-founder of CTO School and the startup CTO Summit and is the author of Git Distilled, to be published by Pearson in late 2014.

Skill Level

Beginner

Intermediate

What You Will Learn

Starting with creating your first Git repository and committing code, you learn the key concepts and features that will allow you to quickly set up and use Git for your own projects

You are introduced to branching and learn how to merge a branch, create a fast forward merge, and use recursive merges

You also learn how to collaborate via GitHub by cloning a repository, forking a repository, or contributing to a project via a pull request from a fork

In addition, you are introduced to the basics of Git internals to get a sense for how Git works under the hood.

Course Requirements

You will need to have an up-to-date version of Git installed on your computer and have a GitHub user account and password.

You should also be comfortable using a terminal window/command line.

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