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Advanced Git 2 Techniques

by David Tucker

This course will cover how to leverage advanced Git techniques like hooks, attributes, and submodules as well as tools for helping you find bugs and automate repetitive tasks when using Git.

What you'll learn

Software developers can often see source control as simply a system that must be used rather than a tool that enables efficiency. In this course, Advanced Git Techniques, you will learn how to optimize and automate your workflow with Git by leveraging some of its advanced capabilities. First, you will review the configuration of Git. Next, you will discover how multiple repositories can be interconnected by utilizing Git submodules. Next, you will leverage the bisect tool within Git to help us find defects within our code. Finally, you will implement both client and server-side hooks to optimize both individual and team workflows. When you are finished with this course, you will have the skills to leverage the advanced capabilities of Git that make you and your team more efficient in whatever software you are creating.

About the author

David is a Webby Award winning cloud development consultant that focuses on cloud native web, mobile, and IoT applications. For over fifteen years as a consultant David has led custom software development on emerging platforms for companies such as FedEx, AT&T, Sony Music, Intel, Comcast, Herman Miller, Principal Financial, and Adobe (as well as many others). David regularly writes and speaks on the digital landscape with published works for O'Reilly and Lynda.com. He has written for Mashable,... more

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