Intermediate

Table of Contents

To navigate, simply click on the title or topic below. Each document is in the order in which they should be read.

• Git Internals

  • Git vs Traditional Version Control Systems
  • Git as a Content-Addressable File System
  • Understanding the Git Object Database
  • The Three Core Object Types Explained
  • How Git Stores Data
  • The Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG)
  • Commit Ancestry
  • Basics of Rebasing
  • Visualizing Commit Graphs in Git Bash

• Git References

  • What Are References
  • Branches Are Just Pointers
  • How Branches Move
  • What is HEAD?
  • Symbolic References
  • Direct References
  • Understanding Tags
  • Lightweight vs Annotated Tags
  • When to Use Each Type of Tag
  • Detached HEAD State
  • Recover Work From Detached HEAD State

• GitHub Collaboration

  • How Git Knows Where to Synchronize
  • Cloning a Repository
  • Forking a Repository
  • Creating a New Repository from Scratch
  • Remote-Tracking Branches
  • Fetching
  • Pulling Changes
  • Pushing Changes
  • Handling Rejected Pushes
  • Basic Collaboration Workflow Explained
  • Basic Workflow Simplified
  • Merge Conflicts

• Managing Changes, Files, and Authentication

  • Git Stash
  • Restoring Stashed Content
  • Difference Between Pupping and Applying Stashes
  • Naming Stashes
  • Removing Stashes
  • Partial Stashes
  • Ignoring Files with .gitignore
  • Global vs Repository Specific .gitignore
  • Personal Access Tokens
  • Creating and Managing Personal Access Tokens
  • When to Use Personal Access Tokens