Git & GitLab Training Overview
This Git and GitLab Fundamentals for Engineers training course teaches attendees how to use Git at a fundamental level and includes plenty of hands-on exercises managing repositories, creating and merging branches, properly backing out of mistakes, and getting comfortable resolving conflicts. This course gives students a solid grasp of how Git works, helping reduce the typical “fear of blowing something up” in a Git project. Students consistently complete the class with a very high level of confidence with Git.
This course leverages GitLab as a platform to host our Git repositories. Students learn how to share changes, synchronize their branches, collaborate through merge requests, review code, and other collaboration best practices on GitLab.
Location and Pricing
Accelebrate offers instructor-led enterprise training for groups of 3 or more online or at your site. Most Accelebrate classes can be flexibly scheduled for your group, including delivery in half-day segments across a week or set of weeks. To receive a customized proposal and price quote for private corporate training on-site or online, please contact us.
In addition, some courses are available as live, instructor-led training from one of our partners.
Objectives
All students will:
- Understand Git and Git fundamentals
- Review and edit the commit history
- Improve your daily workflow
- Branch, merge, and use remote repositories
- Understand collaboration best practices as a team
- Understand the GitLab flow
Prerequisites
- No prior experience with Git is presumed.
- Prior experience with other version control systems is helpful but not required.
- Experience with the command-line or DOS command prompt is preferred.
Outline
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Introduction to Source Code Management
- The Core Principles of Change Management
- The Power to Undo Changes
- Audit Trails and Investigations
- Reproducible Software
Git Introduction and Basics
- Introduction to Git
- Trees and Commits
- Configuring Git
- Adding, Renaming, and Removing Files
Reviewing and Editing the Commit History
- Reviewing the Commit History
- Revision Shortcuts
- Fixing Mistakes
Improving Your Daily Workflow
- Simplifying Common Commands with Aliases
- Ignoring Build Artifacts
- Saving Changes for Later Use (Stashing)
Branching
- Branching Basics
- Listing Differences Between Branches
- Visualizing Branches
- Deleting Branches
- Tagging
Merging
- Merging Basics
- Merge Conflicts
- Merging Remote Branches
Remote Repositories (i.e., GitLab)
- Remote Repositories
- Synchronizing Objects with Remotes
- Tracking Branches
- Remote branch management
- Forking and working with upstreams
- Rolling back changes
Collaboration Through a Platform
- Introduction to GitLab
- Git Repositories on GitLab
- Daily Workflow - The GitLab Flow
- Using pull requests and code reviews
- Leveraging Forks
History Management
- Rebasing
- Searching the log
- Cherry picking
- Squashing
- Bisecting
- Advanced workflows
Workflows/Best Practices
- Branch strategies
- Remote strategies
- Tagging strategies
Repairing Branches Mastering History
Conclusion
Training Materials
All Git training attendees receive comprehensive course materials in digital format.
Software Requirements
- Git 2.x or later
- Internet access for all attendees and the instructor
