How Git Works
This course is for developers and system administrators who want to really understand Git. Whether you just started using Git, or you've been using it every day for months - this course will give you the knowledge you need to become a Git master.
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Mar 10, 2016
Duration
1h 49m
Table of contents
Git Is Not What You Think
Introduction
2m
Git Is an Onion
3m
Meet SHA1
6m
Storing Things
4m
First Commit!
9m
Versioning Made Easy
6m
One More Thing: Annotated Tags
2m
What Git Really Is
3m
Branches Demystified
Introduction
1m
What Branches Really Are
4m
The Mechanics of the Current Branch
6m
Let's Merge!
3m
Time Travel for Developers
5m
Merging Without Merging
3m
Losing Your HEAD
6m
Objects and References
2m
Rebasing Made Simple
Introduction
1m
What a Rebase Looks Like
4m
An Illusion of Movement
2m
Taking out the Garbage
2m
The Trade-offs of Merges
3m
The Trade-offs of Rebases
3m
Tags in Brief
4m
A Version Control System
1m
Distributed Version Control
Description
Course info
Level
Beginner
Updated
Mar 10, 2016
Duration
1h 49m
Description
Here is a confession: I used Git for a long time without really understanding what was going on. I knew all the basic commands, but I still got stranded when something went wrong. Why did my rebase fail? How did I manage to mess up the remote? Then I found the key to Git: the content of the .git directory. Once I understood the underlying model, everything about Git clicked into place. Things that used to be baffling and complicated suddenly looked simple and elegant. Let me share these insights with you. It will take you just two hours to wrap your head around Git.
About the author
About the author
Paolo Perrotta is a traveling coach and a software mentor. He wrote "Metaprogramming Ruby", widely praised as one of the essential books on Ruby.