Learning Software Version Control

Explore the fundamentals of using software version control to manage changes, prevent conflicts, and collaborate more effectively during software development.

Introduction

• Getting started with version control

1. Software Version Control Concepts

• What is software version control?
• What is a repository?
• Adding, removing, and ignoring files
• How a repository works
• Branching and merging
• Error handling

2. Git

• How Git works
• Creating Git repositories
• Basic Git commands
• Reverting code to a previous version
• Git branching and merging
• GUI clients and IDE integration
• GitHub and other Git online services
• Challenge: Send one commit to a different branch
• Solution: Send one commit to a different branch

3. Azure Repos

• How Azure Repos works
• Creating Azure DevOps repositories
• Add and remove files on Azure Repos

4. Subversion

• How subversion works
• Creating subversion repositories
• Adding and removing files
• Reverting code to a previous version
• Subversion branching and merging

5. Perforce Helix Core

• How Helix Core works
• Creating Helix Core repositories
• Basic Helix Core commands
• Reverting code to a previous version
• Helix Core branching and merging

6. Mercurial

• How Mercurial works
• Creating Mercurial repositories
• Basic Mercurial commands
• GUI clients and IDE integration
• Reverting code to a previous version
• Mercurial branching and merging

Conclusion

• Selecting the right software version control for you
• Next steps