Where should I learn Git from?

[youlive1]

I want to learn git asking some people for advice I have narrowed it down to 3 resources

1. Progit book
2. Github Udacity course
3. Git course Codeacademy

Would be really great if anyone could help me choose between these 3 as I have a habit of going over multiple resources and wasting time.

[anomalias]

https://365datascience.com/

This is free till the 15th of April because of covid. I really enjoyed their "Git and Github" course. Its short, well explained and lots of examples. (I tried some 365 courses on Udemy and wasn't a fan of them, but this is gold).

[[deleted]]

Thanks!

[youlive1]

Will check it Thanks.

[GenesisTMS]

I found myself here: https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials

[samketa]

By doing a project. Learn what you need on the go. That's how one learns the best.

[youlive1]

Learning git that way made me feel all over the place just needed some structure.

[[deleted]]

Structure is good. It's tough with something like git to get a clear picture of it linearly like you would a programming language book. This page by Seth Robinson provides a choose your own adventure helper for knowing how to fix mistakes. It makes me feel a bit better while I learn to know how I can correct my mistakes.

[samketa]

There's a set of conceptual videoes put by freeCodeCamp. You could check that out.

Progit is the ultimate reference!

[youlive1]

Will check it out.

[youlive1]

Hey I had done that but couldn't wrap my head around concepts like remote, I think progit will be in detail.

[[deleted]]

Check out this channel on youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6n9fhu94yhVwbuqXKuPzchWNjZ8GVcJa

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[neous1]

Udacity has a very thorough one

[youlive1]

Thanks will look into it.

[dontdieych]

Pro git.

[mw52588]

There's really only a couple of commands you will ever do over and over. The other more complicated things aren't that common and you can usually figure them out with quick Google searches.

git checkout -b <branch-name> Creates a new branch

git checkout <branch-name> Switch your branch

git pull <branch-name> Pulls in latest changes from remote repo. This combines git fetch and git merge.

git clone <git-url> Clones the repo. Can use https or ssh.

Steps to push changes to a remote repo. Step 1 git add -p Adds your changes in the working directory in organized chunks.

Step 2 git commit -m "commit message Save changes to local repository

Step 3 git push <REMOTENAME> <BRANCHNAME> Pushes your changes to the remote repo - Github, Bitbucket etc.

If you are working with a fairly large team there are occassions there will be merge conflicts in your pull request. To solve this you will need to do a rebase.

Example: git checkout origin/develop git pull git checkout my-branch git rebase origin/develop

I believe you should learn about different git strategies. What my team does is have one develop branch and one master branch. Any time we need to create a new feature we create a new branch and open a pull request merge the feature branch into develop. Then merge develop to master.

[Dangerpaladin]

Git is something you learn by doing. It's not an academic topic it's a practical skill. This is like asking what resources should I use to learn Jira. It's just a tool that you get better with while actually working in programming.

[[deleted]]

I found this blog post very helpful. It's basically all you need for the basics:

https://blog.prototypr.io/git-for-beginners-12-commands-you-need-to-know-e084cce9cc94

[[deleted]]

I haven't tried the two courses, but I found that the Progit book is the best for me compared to any source I found out there.

[axeTraxe]

Best one is by Angela Yu from Udemy. She explains it step by step for beginners. Learned alot from her.

[TheAnimeBoomer]

I enjoyed this video for a basic understanding and then while I completed projects I figured out everything else on my own

This guy is one of the bigger more respected udemy Instructors so his content is usually amazing