This course will comprehensively cover the GitHub hosting service as a companion to the Git source control tool, which means no prior knowledge or experience is required. Students will emerge at the end with a very solid understanding and hands-on experience with Git and GitHub.
Course Organization
The course is divided into four major components:
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Introduction and Setup
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Learning Git Source Control
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All About GitHub
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Bonuses
Each one of the above components spans multiple sections in this course.
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Introduction
The Introduction provides a welcome to the course including some useful tips for getting the most out of taking the course and how the course is designed. That is followed by the Core Concepts which go over some critical theory before diving straight into Git.
After the introduction and core concepts, the first thing we do is a Quick Installation for both Windows and Mac. The Bonus section has a more comprehensive, step-by-step process for those that prefer it.
Learning Git Source Control
In The Basics, we walk through all the foundational commands needed to start a new project managed by Git (or enable Git for an existing project) all the way through making commits, including common file operations like moving and deleting files. We also cover how to exclude the wrong files from accidentally being committed and how to review your repository’s history.
With a strong foundation in place, we explore some more Advanced Git topics like comparing differences, branching and merge resolution, tagging special events, saving work in progress, and even a bit of time travel.
All About GitHub
The main part of this course is all about GitHub. We will explore GitHub indepth from a source control hosting repository perspective.
In Welcome to GitHub we start off exploring some of the basic features of GitHub by creating a fresh repository and associate our local repository with it. Then, we prepare for the remainder of the course by setting up SSH Authentication, which we will use from this point forward. After that, we continue looking at the GitHub Repository, including many of the same operations we performed locally, but done directly within GitHub. Then in GitHub Repository Branches we dive into how Branches on GitHub and our local system work with each other.
After we have comprehensively covered how GitHub repositories work, we focus on how GitHub Tags and Releases work and their relationship with local tags in Git. We can then use tags/releases while Comparing Differences on GitHub.
We start tying things together in Social Coding where we join other projects on GitHub by forking and then submitting our contributions back using pull requests.
Once part of a team, you might use GitHub Issues to track defects or enhancement requests.
Sometimes you just need to share small parts of a file or a set of files, but don’t want to bother with a full Git repository. That where GitHub Gists help out — share just a snip of code or entire files.
Finally, group related GitHub repositories with GitHub Organizations and manage permissions and access using teams.
Bonuses
The bonuses sections and lectures provide additional information, more comprehensive instructions, or non-critical lectures.
Course Features
All tools have installation and configuration sections to ensure no one is left behind.
Presentations provide audio/video training of conceptual ideas. Since few like slide-ware presentations, slide-presentations are kept to a minimum.
Screencasts provide a video of the instructor’s computer system with any actions, commands, or screens displayed and narrated. There is nearly 5Â hours of screencast based video training in order to step through each command or action in sufficient detail.
All videos are available in high quality 1080p / Full HDÂ resolution for sharp and clear viewing on modern desktops and tablets.Â
Several attachments and document lectures throughout the course provide supplemental information, illustrations, or other reference material.
Moving Forward
This course will expand periodically to include more topics, supporting materials and bonus content! Some content may be in direct response to student feedback or discussions — so get engaged with the course discussions feature!
Core Concepts
Quick Installations
The Basics
Advanced: Beyond the Basics
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14The Basics Overview
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15Initialization
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16Git States
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17First Commit
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18Repository and the Git Folder
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19Starting with Existing Project
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20Commits and Messages
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21Commit Details with Log and Show
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22Express Commits
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23Backing Out Changes
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24History and Making New Commands with Alias
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25Rename and Delete Files
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26Managing Files Outside of Git
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27Excluding Unwanted Files
Welcome to GitHub
SSH Authentication
GitHub Repository
GitHub Repository Branches
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49GitHub Repository Overview
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50Starting Remote with a Starter Repository
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51Create a Local Copy with Clone
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52Seeding the Repository with Sample Content
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53Publish Back to GitHub
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54Fetch and Pull
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55Repository Features and Settings
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56Updating Repository and Remote References
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57Looking at Files and Folders on GitHub
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58Directly Editing Files on GitHub
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59Creating a New Files on GitHub
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60Creating a New File on Master
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61Renaming and Deleting Files on GitHub
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62Synchronizing our Changes with our Local Repository
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63Reviewing Commits with the Commit List
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64Commit Details: Going Deeper
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65GitHub Time Travel: Reviwing Your Repository as of a Particular Commit
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66Using Commit IDs with the Local Repository
GitHub Tags and Releases
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67Repository Branches Overview
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68Creating Branches on GitHub
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69Local Branches
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70Comparing and Pull Requests
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71Merging Locally
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72Locally Switch to a Branch on GitHub
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73Cleaning Up By Deleting Branches and References
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74Pull with Rebase
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75GitHub Graphs
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76Setting the Default Branch
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77Dealing with a Conflict while Pulling