Git & GitHub, visually

See what Git does to your files and history, then do it yourself. Nothing to install to start.

Understand what Git does each time you run a command. Commits, staging, branches, merging and teamwork on GitHub, each one animated and then practised.

First lessons freeBeginnerGit & GitHub

Level

Beginner

Lessons

Length

2 h 11 min

Quizzes

Exercises

What you’ll learn

Explain what a commit is and how Git keeps your project’s history
Install Git and set it up with your name, email and default branch
Move changes from your folder, through staging, into a commit
Write small, focused commits with clear messages
Read your history, compare changes and open any old version
Undo edits and commits safely, and rescue work you thought was lost
Create branches, merge them and resolve merge conflicts
Use stash, rebase and cherry-pick when the situation calls for them
Push, clone, fetch and pull with GitHub, and fix a rejected push
Open and review pull requests as part of a team workflow

Course content

8 sections · 31 lessons · 2 h 11 min total

Why Git?Free2 min Setting up GitFree3 min Creating a repositoryFree3 min

Staging & committingFree3 min Writing good commitsFree3 min Ignoring files4 min Comparing changes5 min Moving & removing files3 min Tidy the recipe siteExercise3 min

Reading the log3 min Visiting old commits3 min Rescue the travel pageExercise3 min

Restoring files3 min Amending a commit3 min Reverting a commit3 min Resetting a branch5 min Recovering lost commits4 min Clean up the garden blogExercise3 min

Branching & merging3 min Resolving conflicts5 min Stashing work4 min Rebasing4 min Cherry picking3 min Fix the book club datesExercise3 min

Hosting on GitHub6 min Pushing to GitHub4 min Cloning a repository3 min Fetching new work4 min Pulling changes4 min Fixing a rejected push4 min Opening a pull request5 min Reviewing a pull request4 min Share the photo galleryExercise3 min

Cleaning up commits5 min A day on the team6 min

You made it2 min

Requirements

A computer running macOS, Windows or Linux.
You can create a folder and edit a text file.
No coding or terminal experience is needed. Every command is shown and explained.

Who this course is for

Complete beginners who have never used Git.
Developers who use Git by copying commands and want to understand what those commands do.
Designers, writers, analysts and product managers who are joining a team that works on GitHub.
Students and self-taught developers preparing for their first job.

About this course

Git is the tool almost every software team uses to save work, try ideas and collaborate. It is also hard to learn from text alone, because everything it does happens out of sight.

This course makes that work visible. Every lesson animates exactly what Git does to your files, your commits and your branches, then asks you to do it yourself. Each lesson takes a few minutes and ends with a summary of the key ideas and the real commands, so you can return to it later.

You start with what a commit is and finish working on a team: pushing to GitHub, opening pull requests, reviewing a colleague’s code and recovering from the mistakes everyone makes along the way.

Every command and its output is checked against Git’s official documentation and a real terminal.

Created by software professionals with a decade of industry experience.

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What you’ll learn

Explain what a commit is and how Git keeps your project’s history
Install Git and set it up with your name, email and default branch
Move changes from your folder, through staging, into a commit
Write small, focused commits with clear messages
Read your history, compare changes and open any old version
Undo edits and commits safely, and rescue work you thought was lost
Create branches, merge them and resolve merge conflicts
Use stash, rebase and cherry-pick when the situation calls for them
Push, clone, fetch and pull with GitHub, and fix a rejected push
Open and review pull requests as part of a team workflow

Course content

8 sections · 31 lessons · 2 h 11 min total

Why Git?Free2 min Setting up GitFree3 min Creating a repositoryFree3 min

Staging & committingFree3 min Writing good commitsFree3 min Ignoring files4 min Comparing changes5 min Moving & removing files3 min Tidy the recipe siteExercise3 min

Reading the log3 min Visiting old commits3 min Rescue the travel pageExercise3 min

Restoring files3 min Amending a commit3 min Reverting a commit3 min Resetting a branch5 min Recovering lost commits4 min Clean up the garden blogExercise3 min

Branching & merging3 min Resolving conflicts5 min Stashing work4 min Rebasing4 min Cherry picking3 min Fix the book club datesExercise3 min

Cleaning up commits5 min A day on the team6 min

You made it2 min

Requirements

A computer running macOS, Windows or Linux.
You can create a folder and edit a text file.
No coding or terminal experience is needed. Every command is shown and explained.

Who this course is for

Complete beginners who have never used Git.
Developers who use Git by copying commands and want to understand what those commands do.
Designers, writers, analysts and product managers who are joining a team that works on GitHub.
Students and self-taught developers preparing for their first job.

About this course

Git is the tool almost every software team uses to save work, try ideas and collaborate. It is also hard to learn from text alone, because everything it does happens out of sight.

You start with what a commit is and finish working on a team: pushing to GitHub, opening pull requests, reviewing a colleague’s code and recovering from the mistakes everyone makes along the way.

Every command and its output is checked against Git’s official documentation and a real terminal.

Created by software professionals with a decade of industry experience.

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