Git for Teams

Learn best practices for using Git as a team. Explore techniques and tools that can help you and your team work together harmoniously and quickly deliver high-quality software.

Introduction

• Using Git for team collaboration
• What you need to know

1. Fundamentals of Git Collaboration

• Fundamentals of Git collaboration overview
• Common pitfalls: Untracked pulls
• Common pitfalls: Force push
• Best practices: Committing and syncing
• Best practices: gitignore
• Standardize line endings with autocrlf
• Branch naming
• Write descriptive commit messages
• Team composition and members roles

2. Teaming with Remote Platforms

• Teaming with remote platforms overview
• Remote platform selection
• GitLab installation
• GitLab overview
• User account setup
• Account administration and preferences
• Keeping secrets
• Git workflows
• Trunk-based development
• Git flow
• Protecting branches
• Issues
• Feature branches
• Code reviews
• Merging feature branches
• Git Flow wrap-up

3. Continuous Integration

• Continuous integration with Git
• Tools for continuous integration
• Install GitLab Runner
• Register GitLab Runner
• Building a CI pipeline
• Automating units tests for quality assurance
• Code quality with pipelines
• Building a DevOps foundation

4. Maintaining Flow in Your Workflow

• Undoing local changes
• Reverting problematic changes
• Stashing your work
• Cherry-picking a hot fix
• Squashing commits

Conclusion

• Next steps