Understanding Git in Columbus, OH

Full Course Description

Audience:

• Software development professionals seeking to understand Git on a deeper level & be more confident working with it
• Teams looking to move from another source control system to Git

Agenda:

1. The Git Parable
   • Snapshots
   • Branches
   • Branch Names
   • Tags
   • Distributed
   • Offline
   • Merges
   • Rewriting History
   • Staging Area
   • Diffs
   • Eliminating Duplication
   • Compressing Blobs
   
2. Distributed Version Control Systems
   • Difference to centralized version control system
   • Advantages (“Why do I care? What can git do for me that TFS can’t?")
   
3. Git basics and Git repositories
   • Creating Git repositories
   • Adding files to a Git repository
   • Git Internals (“Oh! That’s all a ‘detached head' is?!?!?!”)
   • Remote (bare) repositories
   
4. Working with branches and tags
   • Using local and remote branches
   • Tagging
   • Synchronizing branches
   
5. Git history
   • Accessing different versions of the files
   • Accessing older versions of the files
   • Git stash
   • Comparing commits using BeyondCompare
   
6. Merging / Rebasing
   • Merging changes with the merge command
   • Merging changes with the rebase command
   • Selecting individual changes
   • Merge and rebase best practices
   
7. Understanding remote repositories
   • Configuration of remote repositories
   • Receiving changes from remote Git repositories
   • Pushing changes to remote repositories
   • Pull requests
   
8. How to view/analyze changes in a Git repository
   • Differences between two commits
   • See the changed files between two commits
   • Using git bisect for error search
   
9. Using the Visual Studio IDE for Git operations
   • Cloning online repositories
   • Git operations with Visual Studio
   • Displaying the owner of a change in Visual Studio
   • Visual Studio merge conflict resolution support
   
10. Team organization and best practices
    • Avoiding and solving merge conflicts
    • Best practices for working with Git
    • Git-Flow