Workshop

Workshop: Understanding Git

Get to know Git: From basics to branching. Everything you need to work with Git as a developer in a team.

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Git has established itself as the standard for version control in software development. This seminar offers you deep insights into the core concepts and practical applications of Git. It shows you how to develop software collaboratively with Git in a team.

Important Commands and Typical Workflows

We focus on those commands and workflows that are most commonly used in everyday project work. You’ll learn how to create commits, synchronize changes with push and pull, resolve conflicts, and handle feature branches as well as pull requests.

Branching Strategies

The seminar focuses on typical processes in everyday project work. In addition to important commands and technical fundamentals, the most widespread workflows are put at the center. An important part of the seminar is dedicated to various branching strategies. You’ll learn how to apply these strategies in your projects to establish an effective workflow for development in your team.

Expanding Your Git Skills

After this two-day seminar, you’ll be confident in using Git’s central functions and can deploy it efficiently both from the development environment and via command line.

You’ll be able to manage your own repositories, exchange commits with push and pull, handle feature branches and pull requests, and will have learned about various branching strategies.

Contents

• Intro. What is Git?
  About the origin, development, and especially the advantages of Git
• Repository
  What exactly is a Git repository? What does it contain and what not?
• Concepts
  Decentralization and revision hashes
  The Git log
• Commits
  Creating commits
  diff: Viewing changes.
• Clones
  Cloning
  Working with remote repositories
• Push & Pull
  Exchanging commits via push and pull
  GitHub pull requests (or GitLab merge requests)
• Merges
  Resolving merge conflicts
  Strategies for handling and avoiding merge conflicts
• Branches
  Branching in Git
• Workflows
  Trunk-based workflow
  Feature-based workflow
• Rebasing
• Modularization
  Submodules
  Subtrees