Git Mindset: Underlying Architecture of Git in Simple Terms

This course is designed to help you gain The Git Mindset. Using mechanisms like storytelling, hands–on–labs and quizzes, you’ll gain a deep intuition about Git. To follow this course, you don’t need any prior knowledge.

The course uses a story to explain not only what Git does, but also how it does those things and why it was designed that way.

Note: This course is up–to–date and uses the newer commands (switch and restore) introduced in Git 2.23.

Gitting the hang of it – Building intuition about Git

This section goes over the story of the smallest team with the simplest workflow – a lone developer named Ana who’s working on her software project on her personal machine. Over time, we’ll introduce additional requirements like the need to manage historical versions, the need to create backups, the need to collaborate with additional team members etc. Each of these requirements will lead to a change in the version control system and eventually this fictitious version control system (Tig) will have evolved into something very much resembling Git. This section will help you internalize the core concepts of Git with ease.

Gitting our hands dirty! – studying Git basics

We’ll take a break from learning the core concepts of Git and try using Git ourselves. This entire section is a series of labs where you’ll follow along and get hands on experience with Git. You’ll find that the previous section has prepared you with enough core concepts that you’ll find everything quite straight forward. By the end of this section, you’ll know how to craft commits with care and how to study them.