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16 lessons (video or text)
13 exercises in the IDE
40 quizzes
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What you will learn
- Develop in accordance with the latest engineering practices
- Effectively manage source code, add it to the public repository, analyze history, and modify it
- Work with GitHub and contribute to open source projects
Description
Git (the version control system) is one of the main instruments in a toolkit of any developer. Regardless of the area of development you choose, all programmers work with the source code for projects that are constantly updated, changed, and deleted. In this free beginner's course on Git, you'll learn how to properly manage this process, easily recover from bugs, examine your change history, and how to maintain collaborative development.
Lessons
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1
Introduction
Get acquainted with the course and discuss the problems a developer faces when working with source code. We will understand why Git has become the universal and core tool for almost any development project -
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Installation and setup
Explain how to set up your operating system (Ubuntu/MacOS/Windows), install Git and the VSCode editor, and create a Github account. And more on what will help you master Git fluently -
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Integration with Github
Setting up GitHub, creating a repository there, and linking it to a local one. We will also learn how to clone a GitHub repository to your computer -
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Working Directory
Figuring out what a working directory is and how it differs from a repository, and learning how to restore files -
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Analyzing changes made
Finding out why analyzing changes is useful even for small projects. Learning the git diff command which is to run before each commit -
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Analyzing the history of commits
Learning to get all sorts of info about past commits: who, when, and how changed the code. Exploring the commands for this: log, show, blame, grep -
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Undoing changes in the working directory
Discussing how to rollback changes made in the working directory, but haven't been committed. Learning how to revert changed files to the initial state -
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Cancelling commits
What should we do if we already made a commit, but it doesn't suit us? Learning special commands to simplify undoing or changing a commit: revert, reset -
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Changing the last commit
Made a commit but forgot to add some files? Figuring out how to add changes to the current commit without creating a new one -
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Moving through history
Git allows you not only to view the history, but also to navigate through it by uploading the state of any commit to the working directory. Let's figure out how to do this -
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Understanding Git
The basic "job" of Git is to build a set of single-linked lists made up of commits. Here we introduce the key concept of Git and the "branch" concept -
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Ignoring files (Gitignore)
Learning the concept of "ignoring files" and how to decide what to include and exclude from the repository -
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Open Source projects
Explain how to join the development of open source projects, learn about teamwork, and boost your portfolio -
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Do it yourself
Additional tasks that help consolidate the theory you've learned -
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Additional resources
Materials were picked up by the Hexlet team. This will give you a more in-depth understanding of the topic
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