Rocking Git & GitHub - A Real World Guide

Demonstrates a real-world pull request workflow on GitHub, from creating a branch and files to reviewing, commenting, merging, and cleaning up the release branch.

Explains how forking a repository enables contributions when you cannot create branches directly, creating a fork and submitting a pull request to merge changes into the main repository.

Master end-to-end real world GitHub workflow by forking a golden repository, creating a feature branch, cloning, modifying a file, pushing changes, and submitting a pull request for merge.

Clarify the difference between git pull and pull request, and explain how git pull fetches and merges remote changes into your local and main branch.

keep your forked repository in sync by adding an upstream remote, fetching upstream updates, merging them into your local main, and pushing changes back to origin.

Resolve merge conflicts by identifying overlapping edits in two branches and using the web editor or VS Code to accept current, incoming, or both changes, then merge via pull request.

Master the essentials of markdown to format readme files on GitHub, using headers, bullets, and code blocks; learn to preview, edit with extensions, and copy syntax from real repositories.

Learn how to use GitHub issues to track tasks, bugs, feedback, and ideas, assign collaborators, create labels, link with pull requests, and close issues through discussion or pull requests.

Explore how GitHub webhooks enable real-time deployment by notifying Jenkins of repository changes, reducing API calls, and integrating with DevOps tools for seamless automation.

Learn to integrate a GitHub repository with Discord by configuring a webhook, setting the payload URL, and receiving push notifications in a Discord card.

Revert changes with the git revert command on the command line, review history with git log, and undo single or multiple commits while preserving history (unlike the GitHub UI).

Reset moves the head to a previous commit, removing staged and working changes. Use git reset --hard to delete files from the working directory and note undo is not possible.

Explore rebase vs merge in git by comparing master and feature one; rebasing rewrites history for a cleaner, linear log, while merges preserve context but create extra commits.

Demonstrates a real-world git workflow by rebasing a feature branch on top of main, handling out-of-sync histories, and pushing rebased changes to a remote repository, contrasting rebases with merges.

Learn to reorder commits on the master branch using interactive rebase. Reorder the last three commits with git rebase -i head~3, handle conflicts, and note commit IDs will change.

Learn how to selectively cherry-pick commits from a feature branch to master using git cherry-pick, managing commit IDs, and combining multiple commits.

Learn practical tips to get noticed by recruiters on GitHub, including strong readme files, noteworthy pull requests, and a professional profile highlighted by five GitHub projects to demonstrate skills.

Explore real-world GitHub showcase projects that teach consuming open APIs, building frontend and backend apps, serverless workflows with lambda, API management, and DevOps pipelines with Kubernetes deployments for job-ready skills.

Learn practical git best practices for interviews: meaningful comment messages, use branches and pull requests, commit in small chunks, rebase before PRs, and create meaningful levels for issues.

Master essential Git basics for interviews, including version control, staging and index concepts, moving changes from local to remote repositories, and key operations like clone, pull, push, and pull requests.

Explore advanced git and github interview topics, including cherry picking, merge versus rebase, revert versus reset, fork versus clone, stash, upstream syncing, and github workflows with webhooks, api, and Jenkins.