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Introduction to Git

Difficulty: Beginner
Duration: Up to 2 hours and 30 minutes
Students: 720
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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

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  1. Git Overview
  2. Configuring Git
  3. Getting Started With Git
  4. Understanding the Index
  5. Exploring Branches
  6. Integrating Changes
  7. Remotes
  8. Tagging Commits
  9. The .gitignore File
  10. Wrapping Up

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