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Git and GitHub for Beginners: Commits, Branches, Pull Requests and Collaboration

A 14-lesson walkthrough of Git and GitHub from installation through everyday collaboration. It covers creating repositories, staging and committing, .gitignore, branching, merging and resolving conflicts, then moves on to remotes, push/pull/fetch, pull requests, forks and repository management. It closes with recovery commands (discard, stash, amend, revert) and branching strategies. Suits complete beginners, solo developers and anyone who needs to collaborate on code.

14 lessons 2h 52m total Development English Earns YodaCoins

Lessons by Pathfinder Analytics on YouTube

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What You'll Learn

Install Git and set up GitHub and VS Code on your machine
Create a repository, stage changes, commit and read the history with git log
Exclude files from tracking with .gitignore and unstage files
Create branches, merge them and resolve merge conflicts
Connect a local repo to GitHub, clone repos, and sync with push, pull and fetch
Open pull requests, work with branch policies and contribute through forks
Recover from mistakes by discarding, stashing, amending and reverting changes

Prerequisites

No prior experience needed
A computer where you can install software (Git, VS Code)
A free GitHub account (set up in the course)

Course Curriculum

14 lessons · 2h 52m

About the Instructor

Pathfinder Analytics

YouTube creator

14 lessons here 2h 52m

The lessons in this course were produced by Pathfinder Analytics and are published on YouTube. YodaHut selected and sequenced them into this course; we did not make them, and Pathfinder Analytics is not affiliated with YodaHut.

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