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Git Tips and Tricks

by Enrico Campidoglio

Elevate your daily workflow with these Git tips and tricks. This course will teach you how to speed up common tasks, keep a clean history, undo mistakes, and even debug—all using Git's lesser-known power features.

What you'll learn

If you've been using Git for a while, then you probably know how to use it like any other version control system: you commit files, review changes, and create and merge branches. However, Git is unique because it puts you in complete control of your source code history. In this course, Git Tips and Tricks, you'll learn how to use Git's lesser-known features to improve your daily workflow. First, you'll look at how to use Git efficiently from the command line to help you find a method that fits your workflow and maintains a good-looking history. Next, you'll discover how to track commits across branches and recover from seemingly disastrous mistakes. Finally, you'll learn how to debug using Git. When you're finished with this course, you'll have the skills and knowledge of Git's hidden features needed to maximize the potential of your workflow.

About the author

Enrico took his first programming steps with the Logo turtle on an Olivetti M24 that his father had brought home. Since then, he has spent most of his time in the Microsoft and Java camps, writing everything from command-line utilities to large distributed systems. He is also a speaker and a trainer teaching topics such as Object-oriented design, architecture, TDD, BDD, Continuous Delivery, PowerShell and Git. In his spare time, Enrico contributes to AutoFixture — an open source .NET library fo... more

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