GitHub for Developers (TTDV7551)

This course provides a deep dive into Git and GitHub, the web-based version control repository hosting service. While examples used in the class are related to code, GitHub can be used for other content applications.

Getting Started with Collaboration

• What is GitHub?
• The GitHub Ecosystem
• What is Git?
• Exploring a GitHub Repository
• Using GitHub Issues
• Creating A GitHub Issue
• Using Markdown

Understanding the GitHub Flow

• The Essential GitHub Workflow

Branching with Git

• Branching Defined
• Creating a Branch with GitHub
• Introduction
• Class Diagram
• Interaction Diagrams
• Sequence Diagrams
• Communication Diagrams
• State Machine Diagrams
• Diagram
• Implementation Diagrams

Local Git Configuration

• Checking your Git version
• Git Configuration Levels
• Viewing your configurations
• Configuring your user name and email
• Configuring autocrif

Working Locally with Git

• Creating a Local copy of the repo
• Our favorite Git command: git status
• Using Branches locally
• Switching branches
• Creating a New File
• The Two Stage Commit

Collaborating on Your Code

• Pushing your changes to GitHub
• Activity: Creating a Pull Request
• Exploring a Pull Request
• Code Review

Merging Pull Requests

• Merge Explained
• Merging Your Pull Request
• Updating Your Local Repository
• Cleaning Up the Unneeded Branches

Viewing Local Project History

• Using Git Log

Streaming Your Workflow with Aliases

• Creating Custom Aliases

Workflow Review Project: GitHub Games

• User Accounts vs. Organization Accounts
• Introduction to GitHub Pages
• What is a Fork?
• Creating a Fork
• Workflow Review: Updating the README.md

Resolving Merge Conflicts

• Local Merge Conflicts

Working with Multiple Conflicts

• Remote Merge Conflicts
• Exploring

Searching for Events in Your Code

• What is Git bisect?
• Finding the bug in your project

Reverting Commits

• How Commits are made
• Safe operations
• Reverting Commits

Helpful Git Commands

• Moving and Renaming Files with Git
• Staging Hunks of Changes

Viewing Local Changes

• Comparing changes with the Repository

Creating a New Local Repository

• Initializing a new local repository

Fixing Commit Mistakes

• Revising your last commit

Rewriting History with Git Reset

• Understanding reset
• Reset Modes
• Reset Soft
• Reset Mixed
• Reset Hard
• Does gone really mean gone?

Getting it Back

• You just want that one commit
• Oops, I didn t mean to reset

Merge Strategies: Rebase

• About Git rebase
• Understanding Git Merge Strategies
• Creating a Linear History

To gain the most from this course, you should have:

• Prior experience with Git
• Basic coding or programming knowledge

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