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Productive Git for Developers

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Overview

Knowing your everyday toolset increases your productivity as a developer. And Git is one of those tools you use on a daily basis. Mastering Git is tough; it has hundreds of different commands, often even inconsistent at how you pass in flags and configuration options. On the other side, there are a lot of good Git courses out there already, explaining all of these commands in detail.
With this course, I aim at a different goal. You will walk through a series of scenarios which you’ll most commonly encounter in your daily work life as a developer. I’m talking:
updating your feature branch with the latest changes from master
polishing your git history to make it ready for being peer-reviewed
moving a set of commits to another branch
undoing accidental commits
The goal is not to cover everything, but those tasks that will greatly improve your daily productivity with Git.

Syllabus

  • Only commit some of my currently modified files into the repository
  • Make my git log look pretty and readable
  • Move some commits to a separate branch that I have accidentally committed to master
  • Update my feature branch with the latest changes from master
  • Push a rebased local branch by using `--force-with-lease`
  • Polish my git feature branch before merging or submitting for review
  • Automate the cleanup of my feature branch with Git Autosquash
  • Squash all of my commits into a single one and merge into master
  • Change the commit message of my last commit
  • Add a file I’ve forgotten to add to my last commit
  • Undo my last commit and split it into two separate ones
  • Wipe a commit from my local branch
  • Undo a commit that has already been pushed to the remote repository
  • Temporarily store some work in progress because I have to jump to another branch
  • Find that bad commit that broke your App with Git Bisect

Taught by

Juri Strumpflohner

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