We are glad to announce a very special GitHub Training Workshop event. We convinced (asked kindly) GitHub Training, the offical training team from GitHub, to stop by Copenhagen and give a full-day workshop on Git - all for free!
The event will take place at 7th June 2013, 10:00 to 15:00, at Founders House.
We have space for 50 people, and we expect to the seats to be taken quickly, so please register on the Eventbrite page.
Our Foundations class helps you, as a newcomer to Git and GitHub, fully grasp the the concepts and application of distributed version control so that you can effectively begin using this productivity-enhancing suite of tools. During this live training course, we’ll explore the foundations of Git and GitHub through practical every-day commands and processes. We’ll conclude with workflow ideas and practical tips that will get you on the road to mastery of this revolutionary version control system.
Topics
- Introductions
- History of Git and your initial setup
- Git configuration and its inheritance
- SSH Authentication and your first repository
- Understanding and thinking in Git's three stages
- Adding, committing, and diff-ing code changes
- The Similarity Index; Moving, Renaming, and Removing files
- Network protocols, proxies, and Git's speed
- Managing and using Git Remotes
- Overview of Git's Architecture
- Branching, Tagging, and Stashing
- Merging, Rebasing, and managing conflicts
- Undoing your work with Git
- Making Git work with SVN
Objectives
- Understand how Git works and how to apply that to day to day development.
- Learn how GitHub makes distributed collaboration both effective and enjoyable.
- Practice the use of Pull Requests to make contributions to any project.
- Learn the basic 10 commands that will appear in your every-day use of Git.
- Know how to “back out” mistakes using Git’s incredible history and ability to revert almost any change.
- Leverage the features of GitHub for easier collaboration with colleagues.
- Discover how the offline capabilities of Git work “under the hood”.