How Git Works

Description

In this course, you will learn :

• How Git Works

Syllabus :

1. Git Is Not What You Think

• Version Check 
• Git Is an Onion 
• Values and Hashes 
• Storing Things 
• First Commit! 
• Versioning Made Easy 
• One More Thing: Annotated Tags 
• What Git Really Is 

 

2. Branches Demystified

• What Branches Really Are 
• The Mechanics of the Current Branch 
• Let's Merge! 
• Time Travel for Developers 
• Merging Without Merging 
• Losing Your HEAD 
• Objects and References 

 

3. Rebasing Made Simple

• What a Rebase Looks Like 
• An Illusion of Movement 
• Taking out the Garbage 
• The Trade-offs of Merges 
• The Trade-offs of Rebases 
• Tags in Brief 
• A Version Control System 

 

4. Distributed Version Control

• A World of Peers 
• Local and Remote 
• The Joy of Pushing 
• The Chore of Pulling 
• Rebase Revisited 
• Getting Social 
• The Whole Onion 

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