Git and GitHub Training Course

Git and GitHub Course Contents

Introduction to version control with Git

• what is Git and what do we use it for
• introduction to git
• what is a repository (repo)
• local environment
• the staging area
• remote environment

Basic Git commands

• initialising a project with git init
• creating a repository locally or via GitHub
• checking the staging area with git status
• knowing which repo we are working on with git show origin
• adding content to staging area with git add
• committing changes with git commit
• pushing content with git push
• pulling changes with git pull
• writing notes and readme.md, introduction to markdown
• ignoring content and the .gitignore file
• removing content with git rm
• moving files with git mv

Working with branches

• what is a feature branch
• creating a new branch
• git checkout
• checking which branch we are working on
• discarding edits
• merging branches
• resolving merging conflicts
• aborting a merge
• squashing commits in one branch
• deleting a branch
• discarding edits with git checkout

History

• checking history, previous commits and changes
• git diff
• git log
• git reflog

Users

• setting user details with git config --global
• fixing issues with users
• accepting collaborators

Promoting collaboration

• forking someone else's repository
• duplicating a repo
• modifying a forked repo
• pulling requests

RESET

• reset soft
• reset mixed 
• reset hard

Advanced topics

• editing last commit message
• git rebase
• stashing
• submodules
• workflow suggestions
• large file storage (LFS)
• the .gitconfig file
• creating and using aliases
• solving conflicts
• publishing on github.io
• accessing your remote server via terminal using SSH