Target audience

You use CVS or SVN and you want to try a more flexible tool? You have heard of Git, GitHub or GitLab? These terms do not make any sense to you but you want to discover and use a version control system like Git? This training day is for you!

Goals

• Understand what a (distributed) versioning control system is
• Know what Git is, as well as what GitHub/GitLab are
• Become autonomous with Git on a daily basis

Prerequisites

None.

Training plan

• Introduction
  • versioning: why, what & how?
  • general concepts on (D)VCS
  • install party
• Working alone
  • create a git repository
  • start tracking changes (add, remove, staging area)
  • differences
  • history
  • stash
• Collaborating with Git
  • pull, push
  • remotes (introduction to GitHub/GitLab)
  • branches and simple workflows

Download the plan (PDF)