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Git Reference

Summary

Below you will find a collection of tutorials teaching the basics of Git, the version control system.

Before You Start

These tutorials assume you have a basic understanding of the terminal.

Exercises

You can download exercises to go along with these tutorials on our Git exercises repository on GitHub. You don’t have to know how to use GitHub to use them. Just click the green Code button in the corner and click the Download ZIP option. Then unzip the folder and open it in your text editor.

Git Introduction

Lessons

Why should I use Git?

Git Setup

Lessons

Install Git Set user name and email – Git Initialize a repo – Git Create a .gitignore file – Git

Git Basic Workflow

Lessons

Stage files – Git Commit files – Git View previous commits – Git Basic workflow for Git

Git Intermediate

Lessons

Create a branch – Git Switch branches – Git Merge branches – Git Delete a branch – Git Intermediate workflow – Git

Git Undoing Things

Lessons

Undo git init – Git Discard changes to file – Git Unstage files – Git Edit your last commit – Git Undo your last commit – Git

Next Steps

After taking this course, you can take our GitHub course.