Git Essentials

Become a Git and GitHub Ninja

By: Kalob Taulien

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eText | 29 April 2020 | Edition Number 1

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Understand how to use Git and GitHub confidently by learning the daily Git workflow

Key Features

Explore how Git and GitHub work, along with their important aspects
Learn how to manage files, commits, and branches
Create custom branches and discover how to manage pull requests

Book Description

This course is designed to guide you through working with Git and GitHub. You will start by learning how to install Git on Windows, Mac, and Linux and then understand how to use it on the command line. Next, you will get to grips with configuring Git on a computer and creating, cloning, and adding files to a GitHub repository. The videos will also guide you through creating custom branches and tags, opening and managing GitHub issues, and opening and managing pull requests. All along, the course follows a practical approach, ensuring that you work through plenty of real-life examples. This will give you hands-on experience in building your own repositories, forking the repo, and even safely opening a pull request on your work. Everything you will learn about Git and GitHub in this course is completely transferable to GitLab and Bitbucket. In a bonus section, we will also learn how to use GitHub Pages to deploy your project. By the end of this course, you will be well-versed with Git and GitHub fundamentals, and have the skills you need to work through open-source projects. All code and supporting files are available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Git-Essentials-Become-a-Git-and-GitHub-Ninja

What you will learn

Become well-versed with how to clone a GitHub repository
Understand how to add files to your GitHub repository
Get to grips with resolving merge conflicts
Explore GitHub pull requests and discover how to merge Git branches
Understand how to stash your code
Learn how to use GitHub Pages to deploy your project

Who this book is for

This course is for developers who are looking to work on open-source projects, or anyone interested in learning the commands and important aspects of Git and GitHub.