Git Tutorial

Version control — commits, branches, merges, rebasing and collaborative workflows.

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What you'll learn

1. Git Introduction

What Git is, installing it, the three areas, and making your first commit.

2. Branching and Merging

Creating branches, fast-forward vs merge commits, and resolving a merge conflict.

3. Rebasing and History

Rebase vs merge, interactive rebase for cleanup, and inspecting history with log and diff.

4. Collaborating with Remotes

Remotes, fetch vs pull, pushing, the pull request workflow, and .gitignore.

Enforcing rules automatically with pre-commit and commit-msg hooks, client-side vs server-side enforcement, and sharing hooks across a team.

6. Advanced Workflows

Git Flow vs trunk-based development, their trade-offs, and feature flags as an alternative to long-lived branches.

7. Git Internals

How blobs, trees, and commits actually work under .git, and what git reset really does to HEAD, the index, and the working directory.

8. Git Interview Questions

Common Git interview questions covering rebasing, merging, and remote collaboration.