Git and GitHub Training at Canoo

Canoo is offering a workshop on Git and GitHub. Here's everything you need to know:

Who: International speaker Tim Berglund is coming in to teach the session.
Where: At Canoo headquarters in Basel
When: Monday, May 27, 2013 from 09:00 to 16:00
Cost: CHF 425, including lunch.
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Please note that the training courses are limited to 10 participants, but we may add more sessions if there is demand.

Who is Tim Berglund?

matthew Tim is a GitHubber whose mission is to make it easy for everybody in the world to use Git. He is a presenter internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in the United States, and loves to speak on Git and other topics. Tim is co-president of the Denver Open Source User Group, co-presenter of the best-selling O'Reilly Git Master Class, co-author of Building and Testing with Gradle, a member of the O'Reilly Expert Network, and a member of the GigOM Pro Analyst Network.
He occasionally blogs at http://timberglund.com and lives in Littleton, CO, USA with the wife of his youth and their three children.

What are the class objectives?

  • Understand how Git works and how to apply that to day to day development.
  • Learn how GitHub makes distributed collaboration both effective and enjoyable.
  • Practice the use of Pull Requests to make contributions to any project.
  • Learn the basic 10 commands that will appear in your every-day use of Git.
  • Know how to “back out” mistakes using Git’s incredible history and ability to revert almost any change.
  • Leverage the features of GitHub for easier collaboration with colleagues.
  • Discover how the offline capabilities of Git work.

Topics

  • Introductions
  • Git and your initial setup
  • Git configuration and its inheritance
  • SSH Authentication and your first repository
  • Understanding and thinking in Git's three stages
  • Adding, committing, and diff-ing code changes
  • The Similarity Index; Moving, Renaming, and Removing files
  • Reviewing Version Hstory in Git
  • Strategies for Efficiency (quick workflows, GitIgnores, etc.)
  • Managing and using Git Remotes
  • GitHub
  • Forking Repos
  • Pull Requests
  • Branching, Tagging, and Stashing
  • Merging, Rebasing, and managing conflicts
  • Undoing your work with Git