git-course

Git basics

Table of Contents

• Why mastering this?
• Targets
  • Absolute minimum
  • Must know
• Learn
  • Extra materials
• Do
• When completed

Why mastering this?

Having this module passed you will have mastered some basic Git skills.

You may think of it as of not only a starting set of git skills required for a developer to have but also as of an opportunity to start and populate your developer’s portfolio and back up system.

Targets

Having this module completed you would know the effect of the commands listed and also know how to accomplish some typical tasks.

The classification below is heavily opinionated, yet you will benefit from mastering all of the below described.

When mastering Git basics check yourself against the list below.

Absolute minimum

• Git commands: init, clone, add, commit, checkout, branch, merge, push, pull
• documentation: MarkDown

Must know

Git commands: fetch

Learn

1. Pass Version Control with Git at Udacity to learn or refresh:
   • What is Version Control?
   • Create a Git Repo
   • Review a Repo’s History
   • Add Commits To a Repo
   • Tagging, Branching, Merging
   • Undoing Changes
2. Complete following levels at Learn Git Branching
   • Main: Introduction Section
   • Remotes: Push & Pull – Git Remotes
3. Markdown is a simple syntax to create nicely formatted technical documentation with ease. It is support by GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket. Complete Communicating using Markdown interactive tutorial. Check and bookmark for your future reference MarkDown Guide

:gift: Did you know, Trello, Slack, Telegram and many other tools support MarkDown to a great extent? JIRA also uses notation similar to MarkDown yet different in many aspects.

Wonna see what MarkDown syntax is used to design a particular document? Navigate to it in the browser (e.g. git-basics.md) and click button Raw in the file’s top bar. You will see the file’s guts (e.g. git-basics.md source)

Extra materials

1. Git Screencast [rus] - 72 tiny videos (~3 minutes each) - select the topics that were not clear to you from the materials above
2. Visualizing Git Sandbox - also offers pre-sets available from a dropdown in the upper left corner
3. Git Cheatsheets

Do

Time for practice. Git can be used not only for code but for the documentation as well.

1. On GitHUb under create a repo named kottans-git-course. GitHub will suggest adding README.md. Do not do this. We need an empty repo.
2. Clone the repo locally.
3. Create README.md in the project root and complete it using MarkDown markup notation:
   • Add # Kottans Git Course title.
   • Add ## Git Basics module title.
   • Describe 2 or 3 things that
     • were new to you
     • were familiar but you have seen them at a different angle
     • were not so easy to master or comprehend

Any of your writings above can be done in a language you feel most comfortable with. Try sticking to English though.

When completed

Upload your changes from local repository to remote (using git push).

When done let others know you have passed this module.

This lets other know your progress and probably someone will ask you for some help in this module.

Where to communicate? In a chat you came here from :)

Once done proceed to Contributing with Git

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