Duration 2 days – 14 hrs
Overview
This Introduction to Git training course provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of Git, the most widely used version control system in the software development world. Through hands-on practice and in-depth explanations, participants will learn the fundamentals of Git, including version tracking, branching, merging, and collaboration through remote repositories such as GitHub or GitLab. The course is designed for developers, system administrators, and IT professionals who want to adopt Git for their project and source code management needs.
Objectives
- Understand Git’s architecture and workflow.
- Set up and initialize local Git repositories.
- Track project history through commits and log viewing.
- Create and manage branches for feature development.
- Merge branches and resolve merge conflicts.
- Work with remote repositories (e.g., GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).
- Collaborate on projects using Git workflows such as pull requests and code reviews.
- Implement best practices for version control and team collaboration.
Audience
- Software developers
- System administrators
- DevOps engineers
- IT professionals involved in software development and version control
- Anyone new to Git and distributed version control systems
Pre-requisites
- Basic familiarity with the command-line interface (CLI)
- General understanding of software development concepts is helpful but not required
Course Content
Day 1: Understanding Git Fundamentals and Basic Operations
- Introduction to Version Control Systems
- What is version control?
- Benefits of version control for projects
- Overview of Git and why it’s popular
- Differences between centralized and distributed version control
- Getting Started with Git
- Installing Git on different operating systems
- Configuring Git (user info, editor, aliases)
- Initializing a local Git repository
- Understanding the working directory, staging area, and commit history
- Basic Git Commands
- Adding files to the repository
- Staging and committing changes
- Viewing commit history with git log
- Using .gitignore to exclude files
- Branching in Git
- Understanding branches and why they’re important
- Creating and switching between branches
- Viewing and deleting branches
- Merging branches into the main branch (e.g., master or main)
- Hands-On Lab:
- Participants will create and manage repositories, stage and commit changes, and practice basic branching.
Day 2: Collaboration and Advanced Git Operations
- Working with Remote Repositories
- What is a remote repository?
- Setting up and cloning remote repositories from GitHub, GitLab, etc.
- Pushing changes to a remote repository
- Pulling changes from a remote repository
- Fetching changes without merging
- Collaborating with Others
- Forking and contributing to projects
- Using pull requests for collaboration and code review
- Managing merge conflicts
- Stashing changes for later use
- Git Workflows
- Understanding different Git workflows: centralized, feature branching, Git flow
- Choosing the right workflow for your project
- Creating and using tags for releases
- Rewriting Git History
- Amending commits
- Reverting and resetting commits
- Rebasing to clean up commit history
- Best Practices in Git
- Writing clear and meaningful commit messages
- Keeping repositories clean and organized
- Strategies for collaborating in large teams
- Hands-On Lab:
- Participants will collaborate on projects using remote repositories, resolve merge conflicts, and explore advanced Git workflows.
