Version Control with Git (Udacity)

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What You Will Learn

Lesson 1

Purpose & Terminology

- Learn why developers use version control and discover ways you use version control in your daily life

- Get an overview of essential Git vocabulary

- Configure Git using the command line

Lesson 2

Create a Git Repo

- Create your first Git repository with git init

- Copy an existing Git repository with git clone

- Review the current state of a repository with the powerful git status

Lesson 3

Review a Repo's History

- Review a repo's commit history git log

- Customize git log's output using command line flags in order to reveal more (or less) information about each commit

- Use the git show command to display just one commit

Lesson 4

Add Commits to a Repo

- Master the Git workflow and make commits to an example project

- Use git diff to identify what parts of a file have been changed in a commit

- Learn how to mark files as "untracked" using .gitignore

Lesson 5

Tagging, Branching, and Merging

- Organize your commits with tags and branches

- Jump to particular tags and branches using git checkout

- Learn how to merge together changes on different branches and crush those pesky merge conflicts

Lesson 6

Undoing Changes

- Learn how and when to edit or delete an existing commit

- Use git commit's --amend flag to alter the last commit

- Use git reset and git revert to undo and erase commits