Course Description:

This course provides you with a solid, hands-on foundation for understanding the Git version control system. It is a core component of DevOps, continuous delivery pipelines and cloud-native computing.

In this course you will build a strong conceptual understanding of the technology, and afterward will be able to confidently dig deeper on any topic that interests you.

Note: Every student has assigned to him his own virtual lab environment setup.

Target audience:

• Anyone interested in using source control and specifically Git
• Software engineers, developers, programmers new to Git

Prerequisites:

This course assumes no previous knowledge of Git, but if you do have experience with it, you may find this course to be both useful and challenging.

Curriculum:

Module 01: Introduction

• Why Command Line?
• Why Source Control?
• Why Git?
• Git vs SVN
• Git terminology
• Git objects
• Git installation (windows + Unix)

Module 02: Getting started

• Using GitHub and setting up a project
• Clone a git repository and have some basic workflow

Module 03: Git Basics

• Basic git commands

Module 04: Git init

• Creating a fresh project
• Adding Git to an existing project
• Joining an existing project (git clone)
• Basic git workflow
• Tracking files
• Editing files
• Adding/Recursive adding files to a git repository
• Renaming, Moving and Deleting files
• Accessing the history of modifications
• Git aliases
• Ignoring unwanted files and folders
• Cleanup and rolling back to previous versions

Module 05: Merge and Diff tools

• Installation overview
• P4Merge installation and configuration

Module 06: How to make comparisons

• Comparing the working directory and the staging area
• Comparing the working directory with the last commit (Git repository)
• Comparing between the staging area and the last commit
• Compare only specific files
• Differences between different commits

Module 07: Branching and Merging on Git

• Branching Basics
• Checkout to a different branch
• Fast forward Merges
• Automating merges
• Merge conflicts and how to resolve them
• Cherrypick
• What to do in case of local branch deletion (for recovery)

Module 08: Stashing

• Stash vs branch
• Simple examples regarding stashing
• Stashing untracked files
• Managing Multiple Stashes
• Stashing into a branch

Module 09: Tagging

• Basic tag examples
• Annotated tags
• Comparing Tags
• Tag specific commits
• Updating tags
• Using GitHub and configuring tags

Module 10: Git hooks

• Local git hooks
• WebHooks
• How to automise certain tasks before/after committing to Git

Module 11: Working with remotes

Additional details:

To attend this course, you need to have:

• PC/Laptop with internet access
• Updated web browser

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