Learn Git & Github

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Version Control

• Difference between Git and Github

  • distributed version-control system for tracking changes
  • hosting site that support VC

• How to create repo ?

• Forking repositories

• Uploading your first repository

• gitignore files

  • Why is it required?

Commits

• What is a commit
  • save your changes to the local repository.
  • should be expliclty done. changes-> add -> commit
• Difference between staging area, index area, and, working directory commit
• Conventions to follow during a commit

Branching and Merging

• Why is branching required?
• How it handles features and allows multiple people to work on the same repo without collisions.
• Checkout a branch
• Conventions to follow for a branch name
• Why master exists
• HEAD and branch references

Git commands ( with common flags )

• init

• clone

• add

• commit

• remote

• pull ( vs fetch and its difference)

• push

• merge

• branch

• checkout

• status

• diff

• log

• Reset

  • What is a reset?
  • Difference between hard, soft.
  • When to do reset?

• Issues and Pull requests (Github)

  • What is an issue?
  • How to create an issue
  • How to assign it to a member?
  • How to create a Pull Request referencing that issue
  • How to review a PR

• Commit message style guides

  • Udacity Commit Message Style Guide

• Other Resources

  • Github CheatSheet