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Git for IT professionals
Learn to understand and use Git
Description
Git is a distributed version control system that IT professionals use to save their source code and to share it.
This course teaches you how to use Git the right way. You will learn to work with a local and remote repository and to deal with merge conflicts. You will also learn the possibilities and risks of rewriting (local) history.
Learning Goals
 Solve merge conflicts using multiple strategies | Apply  |
| Operate on a remote GIT repository in order to collaborate with others | Apply |
| Outline version control systems and GIT in historical context. | Remember  |
Extrapolate how the .git directory works under the hood. | Understand  |
Use git status and git diff to quickly identify changes | Apply |
| Understand how to rewrite history and what the consequences are | Understand |
For the above learning goals we use Bloom's Taxonomy
Prior Knowledge
experience in IT and working with source code.
Subjects
- Introduction
- What is source code control?
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation
- Git introduction
- Anatomy of a Repository
- Blobs
- Trees
- Commits
- Hashes
- Basic Snapshotting
- Checkout/switch
- Index
- Branching
- Add / commit
- Going distributed
- Introducing a remote
- Fetch / pull and push
- Branching & merging
- Create branches
- Merge kinds: fast forward, merge commit, rebasing
- Tags
- Solving conflicts
- Commands: switch, restore, checkout, add, commit, tag
- Status & diff
- Untracked vs staged vs unmodified vs modified
- .gitignore
- Commands: status, diff, log (reflog, shortlog), reset, revert, stash, clean
- Rewriting history
- The dangers of rewriting history
- Rebasing
- Cherry-pick
- Moving around
- Commands: rebase, cherry-pick, prune, switch
- Collaboration models
- Learn the pros and cons of different collaboration models
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Schedule
| Start date | Duration | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|
May 23, 2025 | 1 day | Utrecht / Remote This is a hybrid training and can be followed remotely. More information | Sign up |
June 18, 2025 | 1 day | Veenendaal / Remote This is a hybrid training and can be followed remotely. More information | Sign up |
July 11, 2025 | 1 day | Veenendaal / Remote This is a hybrid training and can be followed remotely. More information | Sign up |
August 29, 2025 | 1 day | Veenendaal / Remote This is a hybrid training and can be followed remotely. More information | Sign up |
September 12, 2025 | 1 day | Veenendaal / Remote This is a hybrid training and can be followed remotely. More information | Sign up |
October 22, 2025 | 1 day | Utrecht / Remote This is a hybrid training and can be followed remotely. More information | Sign up |
All courses can also be conducted within your organization as customized or incompany training.
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