Git and GitHub

Course Code: GITHUB

Duration: 2 days

 
 
 
 

Git and GitHub Course Overview

Git is the most widely used version control system, and GitHub is the most popular hosting service for Git repositories. Millions of developers use these tools daily to collaborate with their colleagues.

This course comprises sessions dealing with version control systems, how Git works, installation, managing a local repository, branching, merging, resolving conflicts, pushing to and pulling from a remote repository, rebasing, getting set up on GitHub, forking, pull requests, and managing repositories on GitHub.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

This course aims to provide the delegate with the skills and knowledge necessary to be able to collaborate on a project under version control, specifically with Git and GitHub.

Who will the Course Benefit?

This course will benefit developers who are required to collaborate using Git and GitHub, and any team member otherwise requiring some level of awareness of how these tools work and the associated workflows and best practices.

Skills Gained

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

  • Define VCS and describe the different types
  • Install and configure Git
  • Create and clone repos
  • Stage and commit modified files
  • Check the repo's status; view differences and commit history
  • Undo changes
  • Manage remotes
  • Define branching and merging (fast-forward and three-way)
  • Create and switch between branches
  • Merge branches and resolve conflicts
  • Push to and pull from a remote
  • Rebase a branch
  • Stash uncommitted changes
  • Get set up on GitHub
  • Fork a repo
  • Work through a pull request
  • Create and manage a repo on GitHub

Git and GitHub Training Course

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a VCS?
  • The types of VCS
  • A short history of Git
  • Git vs. Subversion et al.
  • The three file states
  • The working tree, staging area, and Git DB
  • The basic workflow
  • Installing Git
  • Git config
  • Getting help

Session 2: GIT BASICS

  • What is a repo?
  • Creating and cloning repos
  • Tracked vs untracked files
  • Checking status
  • Staging new and modified files
  • Ignoring files and directories
  • Viewing changes
  • Committing changes
  • Removing files
  • Renaming files
  • Viewing commit history
  • Undoing changes
  • Managing remotes
  • Tagging

Git and GitHub Training Course

Session 3: BRANCHING

  • What is branching?
  • Commit objects
  • Branches
  • The master branch
  • Creating a new branch
  • HEAD
  • Switching between branches
  • Divergent history
  • Merging
  • Resolving conflicts
  • Deleting a branch
  • Branch management
  • Workflows
  • Remote branches
  • Pushing
  • Tracking branches
  • Pulling
  • Rebasing
  • Stashing

Session 4: GITHUB

  • What is GitHub?
  • Getting set up
  • The GitHub flow
  • Pull requests
  • No fast-forward merge
  • Keeping up with upstream
  • Creating a new repo
  • Adding collaborators
  • Free and paying GitHub accounts
  • Changing the visibility of a repo
  • Deleting a repo
Notes:
  • Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
  • Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.

Requirements

Delegates attending this course should be computer literate and will ideally have some experience working at the command line though this is not essential.

Course Reviews

Best course I've ever done. Good balance of lecturing and practicals - learned what I was expecting to. Excellent lecturer.

John - Academic - February 2024

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