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Understanding Git in Dallas, TX

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This two-day instructor-led course will provide participants with an understanding of the development workflow when using Git source control, as well as the advantages it provides over non-distributed source control systems.

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Class Schedule in Dallas, TX

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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

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