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Intermediate GitHub for Developers
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Explore GitHub Collaboration, Flow, Branching, Workflows, Repositories & More
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Duration:2 Days
Level:Intermediate
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Overview

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This is a fast-paced, hands-on course designed for developers who already have foundational Git and GitHub experience and want to deepen their skills with advanced collaboration and workflow features. This class goes beyond the basics, focusing on practical techniques for branching, merging, conflict resolution, workflow optimization, and leveraging GitHub Actions to automate development pipelines. Students will gain confidence in handling complex scenarios and learn best practices for maintaining clean, efficient project histories.

Objectives

This course is approximately 50% hands-on lab to lecture ratio, combining engaging expert lessons, demos and group discussions with real-world, skills-focused machine- based labs and exercises. Working in a hands-on learning environment led by our expert team, students will explore: 

 

  • Branching with Git 
  • Merging Pull Requests 
  • Viewing Local Project History 
  • Streaming Your Workflow with Aliases 
  • Workflow Review Project: GitHub Games 
  • Resolving Merge Conflicts 
  • Working with Multiple Conflicts 
  • Merge Strategies: Rebase 
  • Understanding GitHub Actions 
  • Working with Workflows 
  • Managing Jobs and Steps within a Workflow 
  • Dealing with complex Workflows 

Audience

This class does assume prior experience with Git, The students should also have basic coding or programming knowledge.

Pre-Requisites

This class does assume prior experience with Git, The students should also have basic coding or programming knowledge. 

If you are new to Git and GitHub, we recommend starting with our companion course TTDV7551 – Introduction to GitHub for Developers, which provides the essential foundations before progressing to this intermediate-level training. 

Introduction to GitHub for Developers

Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We will work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most. Topics, agenda, and labs are subject to change, and may adjust during live delivery based on audience interests, participation, and skill-level. 

 

1 - Branching with Git  

  • Branching Defined 
  • Activity: Creating a Branch with GitHub 
  • Introduction 
  • Creating and Switching Branches 
  • Tracking and Merging Branches 
  • Deleting and Restoring Branches 
  • Class Diagram 
  • Interaction Diagrams 
  • Sequence Diagrams 
  • Communication Diagrams 
  • State Machine Diagrams 
  • Activity Diagram 
  • Implementation Diagrams 

 

2-Merging Pull Requests- 

  • Merge Explained 
  • Merging Your Pull Request 
  • Updating Your Local Repository 
  • Cleaning Up the Unneeded Branches 
  • Reviewing and Commenting 

 

3-Viewing Local Project History 

  • Using Git Log 
  • Using git show, and git diff 
  • Visualizing History with Git Graphs 
  • Filtering Commits by Author, Date, or Message 

 

4-Streaming Your Workflow with Aliases  

  • Creating Custom Aliases 
  • Using Shell Scripts with Git Commands 

5-Workflow Review Project: GitHub Games 

  • User Accounts vs. Organization Accounts 
  • Introduction to GitHub Pages 
  • What is a Fork? 
  • Creating a Fork 
  • Workflow Review: Updating the README.md 

 

6 - Resolving Merge Conflicts 

  • Local Merge Conflicts 
  • Understanding Conflict Scenarios 
  • Manual Conflict Resolution 
  • Using Visual Merge Tools 
  • Best Practices to Avoid Conflicts 

 

7-Working with Multiple Conflicts 

  • Remote Merge Conflicts 
  • Exploring 
  • Handling Complex Merge Situations 
  • Conflict Markers and Resolution Strategy 
  • Using git mergetool and git rerere 

 

8-Getting it Back 

  • You just want that one commit 
  • Oops, I didn't mean to reset 

 

9- Merge Strategies: Rebase  

  • About Git rebase 
  • Understanding Git Merge Strategies 
  • Creating a Linear History 
  • Understanding Rebase vs Merge 
  • Interactive Rebase for Clean History 
  • Avoiding Rebase Pitfalls in Collaboration 

10- GitHub Actions  

  • What Are GitHub Actions? 
  • Workflows 
  • Events 
  • Jobs 
  • Steps 
  • Runners 
  • Marketplace and Prebuilt Actions 

 

11- Complex Workflows  

  • Adding scripts to your workflow 
  • Using variables 
  • Sharing data between jobs 
  • Working with dependencies 
  • Working with Services 
  • Working with Workflows 
  • Managing Jobs and Steps within a Workflow 
  • Dealing with Complex Workflows 
  • Conditional Execution 
  • Reusable Workflows and Composite Actions 

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