GIT: Advanced commands

Practical GIT training: cherry pick, rebase, revert, stash, clean, and more. Take your GIT skills to the next level.

Created by: Brian Gorman
Microsoft Azure MVP, Developer, Trainer, and Instructor

What Will I Learn?

• Work with some advanced GIT commands
• Know how to rewrite history with squash, rebase, and reset.
• View history in the reflog, expire unreachable commits using reflog and the garbage collector
• Create linear GIT history trees
• Use Aliases
• Perform a Cherry Picking operation
• Use the stash to temporarily save changes
• Work with Tags
• Become a more advanced GIT user

Requirements

• You should be familiar with GIT. You should have GIT installed on your machine, and an account at GitHub or BitBucket.
• You should know how to work with basic GIT workflows

Target audience

• Beginner to Intermediate GIT users
• Developers
• Anyone who wants to learn about some of the more advanced features of GIT
• Someone who is looking to be a team lead and needs to improve their GIT skills
• Anyone that needs to be able to have source control on important files [code, images, documents, spreadsheets, etc]