Git Essential Training: The Basics

Learn about the basics of Git and get comfortable working with Git, as well as GitHub Star and Microsoft MVP, on your own projects.

Introduction

• Get started with Git
• What you should know

1. Why Do You Want to Use Git?

• Git for version control
• Git to share code
• Git to collaborate
• Open source

2. How Does Git Work?

• Use Git locally
• Use a Git provider
• Distributed version control
• How to start working with Git

3. Install and Configure Git

• Install Git on Windows
• Install Git on Linux
• Install Git on macOS
• Git GUI clients
• Optional: Install Visual Studio Code
• Configure Git

4. Push Your Code with Git

• Set up a remote repository
• Clone the remote repository
• Create a file and stage it
• Commit a file
• Push the file to the remote repository
• The .git folder
• Initialize a repository locally and sync it to the remote repository
• Challenge: Push your first code
• Solution: Push your first code

5. Make Changes to Files

• Git status
• Edit a file and view changes
• Make use of the GUI of Visual Studio Code
• View commit history
• Delete files
• Rename files
• Working with folders
• Undo your changes
• Look back in Git history
• Revert to an old state
• Challenge: Make a change and revert
• Solution: Make a change and revert

6. Important Concepts in Git

• Ignoring files
• Git branches
• Git commit messages
• Getting out of trouble

Conclusion

• Next steps