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Git & GitHub — Practical Course

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Level 1 — Start from Zero

  1. What version control solves
  2. Install Git and inspect your environment
  3. Configure author identity and default branch
  4. Create your first repository
  5. Understand the working tree staging area and history
  6. Track a new file with git add
  7. Write useful commits and messages
  8. Inspect changes with git diff
  9. Read history with git log and show
  10. Ignore generated files with gitignore

Level 2 — Develop Core Skills

  1. Create branches for separate work
  2. Switch branches without losing changes
  3. Merge a finished feature
  4. Resolve merge conflicts carefully
  5. Create a remote repository on GitHub
  6. Clone an existing repository
  7. Fetch and compare remote branches
  8. Push commits and configure upstream
  9. Open and review pull requests
  10. Use annotated tags for releases

Level 3 — Build Working Systems

  1. Temporarily save changes with stash
  2. Move a commit using cherry-pick
  3. Rebase a local feature branch
  4. Undo unstaged changes with restore
  5. Unstage and move HEAD with reset
  6. Safely reverse published work with revert
  7. Recover lost history with reflog
  8. Find a regression with bisect
  9. Inspect authorship with blame
  10. Work on parallel tasks with worktrees

Level 4 — Advanced Engineering

  1. Organize protected branches and review rules
  2. Write CODEOWNERS review policies
  3. Apply Git hooks for local checks
  4. Configure attributes and line endings
  5. Manage large files with Git LFS
  6. Choose submodules versus monorepos
  7. Create your first GitHub Actions workflow
  8. Run checks on pull requests
  9. Use matrices caching and artifacts
  10. Publish packages and release notes

Level 5 — Mastery and Professional Practice

  1. Store secrets and use least privilege
  2. Configure OpenID Connect for cloud deployment
  3. Pin trusted actions and manage permissions
  4. Add dependency and code security checks
  5. Verify commits tags and release provenance
  6. Handle release branches and hotfixes
  7. Document branching and delivery conventions
  8. Inspect Git objects and garbage collection
  9. Back up and recover a damaged repository
  10. Build and review an automated delivery pipeline