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Version Control with Git

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The Version Control with Git course provides  you with a solid, hands-on foundation for understanding the Git version control system.  Git is open source software originally created by Linus Torvalds. Git manages team files for large and small projects. This allows the team to continuously improve its product. It is used by most major technology companies, and is assumed knowledge for many modern programming and IT jobs.  It is a core component of DevOps, continuous delivery pipelines and cloud-native computing. You could also use Git to manage the many continuously improving revisions of that book that you are writing. 
In this course, you will not learn everything there is to know about Git, but 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. 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. This is especially true if you currently "know just enough Git to be dangerous". 

There are two paths in this course. Both rely heavily on hands-on labs. One path assumes that you have experience using a command line interface, and the other path uses the Sourcetree graphical client. If you are not experienced with a command line, we highly suggest that you go through the Sourcetree path. Eventually, you might want to go through both paths, so that you can decide which tool to use for specific tasks. Besides, repetition is good for learning :)

You can watch the videos and take the quizzes from your phone if you want, but the hands-on labs require you to have a Windows or Mac computer. If you use the command line path through the course, you can also use Linux. 

This course uses Bitbucket (bitbucket.org) as the hosted provider for remote Git repositories. Bitbucket is free for teams of up to 5 people, including private repositories. However, most of the knowledge that you gain in this course applies to Git itself, and you can apply this knowledge to other hosted Git providers (such as GitHub). 

This course tries to be as concise as possible. It will probably take you about 5-10 hours to go through one of the two paths, but your mileage may vary.

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Version Control
Github
Bitbucket
Command-Line Interface

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Approx. 13 hours to complete

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Steve Byrnes

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

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Week

Week 1

3 hours to complete

Our First Repository

3 hours to complete

12 videos (Total 73 min), 10 readings, 1 quiz

12 videos

DevOps and Git in a Nutshell8m

Git Overview9m

(Sourcetree) Installation and Getting Started2m

(Command Line) Installation and Getting Started6m

Git Locations3m

(Sourcetree) Create a Local Repository2m

(Command Line) Create a Local Repository1m

(Sourcetree) Commit to a Local Repository3m

(Command Line) Commit to a Local Repository8m

Create a Remote Repository3m

(Sourcetree) Push to a Remote Repository9m

(Command Line) Push to a Remote Repository12m

10 readings

Welcome2m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Installation and Getting Started10m

(Lab- Command Line) Installation and Getting Started10m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Create a Local Repository5m

(Lab- Command Line) Create a Local Repository5m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Commit to a Local Repository10m

(Lab- Command Line) Commit to a Local Repository10m

(Lab) - Create a Remote Repository5m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Push to a Remote Repository10m

(Lab- Command Line) Push to a Remote Repository10m

1 practice exercise

Module 1 Assessment30m

Week

Week 2

3 hours to complete

Branching and Merging I

3 hours to complete

9 videos (Total 88 min), 6 readings, 1 quiz

9 videos

Git's Graph Model4m

(Sourcetree) Git IDs3m

(Command Line) Git IDs5m

(Sourcetree) Git References6m

(Command Line) Git References14m

(Sourcetree) Branches13m

(Command Line) Branches13m

(Sourcetree) Merging13m

(Command Line) Merging13m

6 readings

(Lab- Sourcetree) Git References10m

(Lab- Command Line) Git References10m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Branches20m

(Lab- Command Line) Branches20m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Merging10m

(Lab- Command Line) Merging10m

1 practice exercise

Module 2 Assessment30m

Week

Week 3

4 hours to complete

Branching and Merging II

This module continues the discussion of branching and merging. It starts with resolving a merge conflict. Then synchronizing with remote repositories is covered, including the fetch, pull and push commands. The other major topic of this module is rewriting history. The commit history is an important part of a project. A clean commit history makes it easier to understand the project, and then contribute to it by adding new features or fixing problems. If you have not shared your commits, you can rewrite them in a way that makes a cleaner project history. Rewriting history includes amending commits and rebasing.

4 hours to complete

10 videos (Total 107 min), 10 readings, 1 quiz

10 videos

(Sourcetree) Resolving Merge Conflicts12m

(Command Line) Resolving Merge Conflicts12m

(Sourcetree) Tracking Branches10m

(Command Line) Tracking Branches10m

(Sourcetree) Fetch, Pull and Push8m

(Command Line) Fetch, Pull and Push13m

(Sourcetree) Rebasing8m

(Command Line) Rebasing8m

(Sourcetree) Rewriting History8m

(Command Line) Rewriting History14m

10 readings

(Lab- Sourcetree) Resolving Merge Conflicts10m

(Lab- Command Line) Resolving Merge Conflicts10m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Tracking Branches10m

(Lab- Command Line) Tracking Branches10m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Fetch, Pull and Push10m

(Lab- Command Line) Fetch, Pull and Push10m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Rebasing10m

(Lab- Command Line) Rebasing10m

(Lab- Sourcetree) Rewriting History10m

(Lab- Command Line) Rewriting History10m

1 practice exercise

Module 3 Assessment30m

Week

Week 4

3 hours to complete

Git Workflows

This module covers topics on how teams work with Git. Git is flexible enough to work with many types of projects and teams. The better you understand Git's capabilities, the more effectively to can use it in your projects. Topics include pull requests, centralized workflows, feature branch workflows, forking workflows and Gitflow workflows. This module concludes with a project in which you use Git with a Gitflow workflow.

3 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 30 min), 5 readings, 2 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM VERSION CONTROL WITH GIT

by RBNov 25, 2019

This is a great course, i.e. very pedagogical, a nice structure, a lot of practise material and gives a very solid base for working with git. I highly recomend to anyone wanting to pickup git/github

by ASFeb 2, 2019

An excellent intro course to git, Bitbucket and Sourcetree. I did both the Sourcetree and CLI version. Was really good to see things done both ways. Helped to make the material stick.

by AHJun 3, 2021

The course was easy to follow: the instructor's explanation was clear, and the practice exercices were helpful. I recommend this course to anyone will to use or is already using Git!

by BRApr 14, 2021

Nice introductory course for Git. Guided Labs are a nice complement to videos, since sometimes you only realise the real purpose of some topics by using/practicing with them in the terminal.

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