Version Control System

VCS play an integral role in modern software development. They allow multiple developers to work on a project simultaneously without overwriting each other’s changes. VCSs track the history of changes to the source code, making it possible to revert to previous states, compare versions, and more.

Among the VCSs available, Git stands out as one of the most popular and powerful tools. It’s used by small projects and large-scale software alike, owing to its flexibility, distributed nature, and efficient handling of codebase versions.

In this part, you’ll learn about the fundamentals of version control, how to set up your environment for Git, dive into the basics of commits, branches, and merges, understand the significance of tags, and finally, explore how to collaborate using remote repositories and platforms like GitHub.

• About version control (Git)
  • Command line
• Git Setup
  • Your identity
• Git Basics
  • Getting a Git repository
    • Initializing repo in an existing directory
    • Cloning an existing repo
  • Making changes to the repo
    • Checking out status of the file(s)
    • Tracking new files
    • Staging modified files
    • Committing changes
    • Ignoring files
  • Viewing the commit history
    • Limiting log output
  • Undoing things
    • Unstaging a staged file
    • Unmodifiyng a modified file
    • Undoing things with git restore
• Tagging
  • Listing tags
  • Creating tags
  • Deleting tags
  • Checking out tags
• Branches and Merging
  • About branches
  • Branch management
    • Create branches
    • Switching branches
  • Basic branching and merging
    • Merging branches
    • Merge conflicts
  • Rebasing
  • Cherry-picking
  • Branching strategies
• Remotes
  • Showing your remote
  • Adding remote repositories
  • Fetching and pulling from remotes
  • Pushing to remotes
    • Pushing a new branch to remote
  • Inspecting a remote
• GitHub
  • Account setup and configuration
    • About authentication to GitHub
  • Connect with SSH
    • Generating a new SSH key
    • Adding your SSH key to the ssh-agent and GitHub
• Pull Request
  • Draft pull requests
  • Difference between commits on compare and pull request pages
    • About comparing branches
    • Creating a pull request
  • About branches
  • Creating a pull request