Git Advanced

The Clearvision Git Advanced training course provides an understanding of advanced Git concepts and looks at configuration and functionality.

Audience:

Prerequisites:

• Access to laptop
• Internet connection
• Completion of Git Essentials

Course outline:

Module 1: Git Internals

• 1. Pre-requisites
• 2. What this course covers
• 3. Git infrastructure in detail
  • Objects
  • Folder structure
  • The index file

Lab Exercises

• 1. Walk through folder structure
• 2. Using plumbing commands to create objects.

 

Module 2: Housekeeping

• 1. Repository size
• 2. File System Check
• 3. Pruning
• 4. Filter-branch
• 5. Garbage Collection

Lab Exercises

• 1. Garbage collection
• 2. Cleaning up data
• 3. Recovering lost data

 

Module 3: Git Configuration

• 1. Global
  • Environment Variables
• 2. Local (per repository)
  • Git-config
  • The config file
• 3. Attributes
• 4. Alias

Lab Exercises

• 1. Identify Settings
• 2. Configure settings
• 3. Configure Attributes
• 4. Set up an Alias

 

Module 4: Identifying Content

• 1. Finding Content
  • Git Describe
  • Git Grep
• 2. Debugging
  • File Annotation
  • Git Blame
  • Bisect

Lab Exercises

• 1. Identify the cause of a bug.
• 2. Debug the code

 

Module 5: Advanced Collaboration

• 1. Configuring remotes
• 2. Refspecs
• 3. Archives (send & receive)
• 4. Patching
• 5. Sub-modules
• 6. Worktrees

Lab Exercises

• 1. Setting up remotes
• 2. Splitting up a repository
• 3. Archiving
• 4. Creating and applying patches

 

Module 6: Advanced Merging

• 1. Rebase (skipped if following a fundamentals course)
• 2. Dry-runs
• 3. Cherry Picking
• 4. Octopus Merges
• 5. Selecting a strategy

Lab Exercises

• 1. Rebasing
• 2. Cherry Picking
• 3. Performing an octopus merge

 

 

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