Git Training Documentation

Chapters

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. What Is Git?
  • 1.2. Git Architecture
  • 1.3. GitHub, GitLab & Co.
  • 1.4. Comparison To Subversion
  • 1.5. Commit Early, Commit Often
  • 1.6. CLI Tool
  • 1.7. Workshop
• 2. Configuration
  • 2.1. Customising Git
  • 2.2. Configuration Utility
  • 2.3. List Config Options
  • 2.4. Set Config Options
  • 2.5. User & Email
  • 2.6. Editor
  • 2.7. Aliases
• 3. Setting Up A Repository
  • 3.1. Initializing A New Repository
  • 3.2. Cloning An Existing Repository
  • 3.3. Git Directory
  • 3.4. Repository Remotes
  • 3.5. Exercise
• 4. The Commit
  • 4.1. Properties Of A Commit
  • 4.2. The Who, When, What & Why and How
  • 4.3. A Proper Message
• 5. Handling Changes
  • 5.1. Procedure
  • 5.2. File Lifecycle
  • 5.3. Status
  • 5.4. Stage Files & Folders
  • 5.5. Stage Patch Hunks
  • 5.6. Restore Files & Folders
  • 5.7. Diff
  • 5.8. Commit
  • 5.9. Ignore Files
• 6. Inspecting A Repository
  • 6.1. Inspecting The Log
  • 6.2. Inspecting A Commit
  • 6.3. Blaming
• 7. Branches
  • 7.1. Branches explained
  • 7.2. Display branches
  • 7.3. Creating a new branch
  • 7.4. Switching branches
  • 7.5. Deleting a branch
  • 7.6. Checkout commits
• 8. Tags
  • 8.1. Tags vs. branches
  • 8.2. Creating a new tag
  • 8.3. Delete a tag
• 9. Stash
• 10. Remotes
  • 10.1. Purpose of remotes
  • 10.2. Manage remotes
  • 10.3. Pull branches
  • 10.4. Push branches
  • 10.5. Push tags
  • 10.6. Delete remote branches & tags
• 11. Merging changes
  • 11.1. Merge branch
  • 11.2. Cherry picking
• 12. Rebasing branches
  • 12.1. Re…what?
  • 12.2. A simple rebase
  • 12.3. Merge vs. rebase
  • 12.4. Common practice
• 13. Revisions
  • 13.1. SHA Revision
  • 13.2. HEAD
  • 13.3. Branch & Tag References
  • 13.4. Ancestry References
  • 13.5. Commit Ranges
• 14. Collaboration platforms
• 15. Issues
• 16. Merge requests
• 17. Forking
  • 17.1. Forks
  • 17.2. Forking vs. Branching
  • 17.3. Upstream
• 18. Safety net
  • 18.1. Pushing branches
  • 18.2. Reference logs
• 19. Git Workflows

Exercises

• 1. My First Repository
• 2. Committing Is Fun
• 3. Inspector Gitget
• 4. Checkout All The Tgings
• 5. Remote Actions
• 6. The Urge To Merge
• 7. Rebase In Deep Space
• 8. Fork Me, Baby
• 9. Safety First