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Introduction to Git

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 2 hours and 30 minutes
Students: 700
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Description

Learn to perform version control with Git.

Git has become the distributed database that facilitates DevOps. Learn to use the world's most popular version control system in this hands-on lab.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this lab, you'll be:

  • Familiar with the core concepts and data structures of Git.
  • Able to:
    • Create an empty repository.
    • Stage and commit changes.
    • Branch, merge, and rebase.
    • Interact with remote branches.
    • Create tags.
    • Instruct Git to ignore files.

Prerequisites:

  • Comfortable using the Linux command line.
  • Familiar with:

Target Audience

  • Software engineers
  • Data engineers
  • DevOps engineers
  • Site reliability engineers

Covered topics

Development
DevOps
Git
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Lab steps

Git Overview
Configuring Git
Getting Started With Git
Understanding the Index
Exploring Branches
Integrating Changes
Remotes
Tagging Commits
The .gitignore File
Wrapping Up

Lab Rules