Git Advanced Training

Git Advanced Training Outline

• Git Internals

  Pre-requisites

  What this course covers

  Git infrastructure in detail

  • Objects
  • Folder structure
  • The index file

  Lab Exercises

  • Walk through folder structure
  • Using plumbing commands to create objects.

• Housekeeping

  Repository size

  File System Check

  Pruning

  Filter-branch

  Garbage Collection

• Lab Exercises

  • Garbage collection
  • Cleaning up data
  • Recovering lost data.

• Git Configuration

  Global

  • Environment Variables

  Local (per repository)

  Attributes

  Alias

  Lab Exercises

  • Git-config
  • The config file
    • Identify Settings
    • Configure settings
    • Configure Attributes
    • Set up an Alias

• Identifying Content

  Finding Content

  • Git Describe
  • Git Grep

  Debugging

  • File Annotation
  • Git Blame
  • Bisect

  Lab Exercises

  • Identify the cause of a bug.
  • Debug the code

• Advanced Collaboration

  Configuring remotes

  Refspecs

  Archives (send & receive)

  Patching

  Sub-modules

  Lab Exercises

  • Setting up remotes
  • Splitting up a repository
  • Archiving
  • Creating and applying patches

• Advanced Merging

  Rebase (skipped if following a fundamentals course)

  Dry-runs

  Cherry Picking

  Octopus Merges

  Selecting a strategy

  Lab Exercises

  • Rebasing
  • Cherry Picking
  • Performing an octopus merge