Introduction to GitLab

This course provides a deep dive into Git and GitLab, a version control repository management system.

Introduction to Source Code Management

• The core principles of change management
• Undo changes
• Audit trails and investigations
• Reproducible software
• Changing code-hosting platform
• Moving from another version control system

Git and GitLab Introduction

• Introduction to Git
• GitFlow
• GitLab Flow
• Trees and commits
• Configuring Git
• Adding, renaming, and removing files

Reviewing and Editing the Commit History

• Reviewing the commit history
• Revision shortcuts
• Fixing mistakes

Improving Your Daily Workflow

• Simplifying common commands with aliases
• Ignoring Build Artifacts
• Saving changes for later use (Stashing)

Branching

• Branching
• Listing differences between branches
• Visualizing branches
• Deleting branches
• Tagging

Merging

• Merging Basics
• Merge conflicts
• Merging remote branches

Remote Repositories

• Remote repositories
• Synchronizing objects with remotes
• Tracking branches

Centralizing and Controlling Access

• Introduction to GitLab
• Git repositories on GitLab
• Daily workflow

Reviewing Branching and Merging

• Branch review
• Merging basics

Rebasing

• Rebasing basics
• Rebasing with local branches
• Rebasing with remote branches
• Interactive rebasing
• Squashing commits
• Getting out of trouble

Git as a Debugging Tool

• Using the blame command to see file history
• Performing a binary search

Continuous Integration / Continuous Design (CI/CD)

• How to install GitLab Runner
• Adding to our example project
• Breaking down .gitlab-ci.yml
• Adding .gitlab-ci.yml to our example project
• Deconstructing an advanced .gitlab-ci.yml file
• GitLab CI/CD web UI

* Optional Day Three Topics - The following topics can be added to your private group training events.

Resetting Trees*

• Introduction to resetting
• Resetting branch pointers
• Resetting branches and the index
• Resetting the working directory
• Making good use of the reset command

Improving Your Daily Workflow*

• Interactively Staging Changes

Including External Repositories*

• Submodules
• Subtrees
• Choosing between submodules and subtrees

Workflow Management*

• Branch management

Before attending this course, you should have:

• Basic understanding of application development principles
• Basic Linux skills
• Familiarity with command-line options such as ls, cd, cp, and su

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