Software Version Management with Git and GitHub

A warm welcome to the Git and GitHub course by Uplatz.

Git is by far the most popular and widely used modern version control system in use today. Git is a mature, actively maintained open source project originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds of the Linux operating system kernel fame. A large number of software projects rely on Git for version control, and that includes professional projects as well as open source. Developers who have worked with Git are well represented in the pool of available software development talent and it works well on a wide range of operating systems and IDEs (Integrated Development Environments).

Git is a version control tool used widely by developers across the world. It helps individual developers keep track of changes as they work on different features in the same project, and helps teams organize their code. GitHub can integrate with Git - it is a web application that allows users to host, explore, and collaborate on code with their teams and the wider developer community.

Having a distributed architecture, Git is an example of Distributed Version Control System (DVCS). Rather than have only one single place for the full version history of the software as is common in once-popular version control systems like CVS or Subversion (also known as SVN), in Git, every developer's working copy of the code is also a repository that can contain the full history of all changes.

Why Git is popular?

There are many reasons why Git is popular. In addition to being distributed, Git has been designed with performance, security and flexibility in mind. The performance characteristics of Git are very strong when compared to many alternatives. Committing new changes, branching, merging and comparing past versions are all optimized for performance. Also, the algorithms implemented inside Git take advantage of deep knowledge about common attributes of real source code file trees, how they are usually modified over time and what the access patterns are.

GitHub is a cloud-based service that helps developers store and manage their code, as well as track and control changes to their code. In simple words, GitHub is a for-profit company that offers a cloud-based Git repository hosting service. Essentially, it makes it a lot easier for individuals and teams to use Git for version control and collaboration. GitHub’s interface is user-friendly enough so even beginners and new coders can take advantage of Git. Without GitHub, using Git generally requires a bit more technical savvy and use of the command line. GitHub is a development platform inspired by how developers work and manage their code. Thus it synchronizes well with Git.

This Git and GitHub course by Uplatz provides the foundation of how Git and GitHub work. The course covers the most commonly used Git commands, how and when to use them, as well as how to collaborate with developers using Git and GitHub. The GitHub features that are helpful for teams and enterprises are also discussed in this Git and GitHub course.

Git and GitHub - Course Syllabus

1. Version Control System

2. Git Introduction

3. Git Installation

4. Git Workflow

5. Creating Remote Repository

6. How to add existing project to GitHub using Git Bash

7. Working with Repositories

8. Deleting Files

9. Working with Branches