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Git Project: A Real Feature-Branch Workflow

Tie it together: clone, branch, commit, push, open a pull request, handle a conflict, and merge. A realistic end-to-end Git and GitHub workflow, step by step.

Jul 31, 202611 min

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.gitignore and Git Best Practices

Keep your repo clean: how .gitignore works and its patterns, what you should never commit (secrets, node_modules), and how to write commits your team will thank you for.

Jul 31, 20268 min

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Pull Requests and Collaborating on GitHub

How teams ship with GitHub: branches, opening a pull request, code review, and merging, plus forks for open source. The everyday collaboration loop.

Jul 30, 20269 min

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Git Rebase vs Merge: When to Use Each

Understand git rebase versus merge: how rebase rewrites history for a clean line, when to prefer each, and the golden rule of never rebasing shared commits.

Jul 30, 20267 min

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Git Remotes and GitHub: push, pull, clone

Connect Git to GitHub: remotes and origin, clone an existing repo, push your commits, and pull others' work, plus how local and remote history stay in sync.

Jul 29, 20269 min

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Undoing Changes in Git Safely

Fix mistakes in Git: discard edits with restore, move HEAD with reset (soft/mixed/hard), undo a commit with revert, and amend. Which to use, when.

Jul 29, 20268 min

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Git Branches, Explained Visually

Branch in Git with confidence: what a branch really is (a movable pointer), git branch and git switch, and why you branch for every feature, with gitGraphs.

Jul 28, 20268 min

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Git Merging and Resolving Conflicts

Merge branches in Git: fast-forward vs merge commits, how to read and resolve a merge conflict, and finishing the merge, with gitGraph diagrams.

Jul 28, 20268 min

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Git History: log, diff and show

Read your project's history in Git: git log and its useful flags, git diff for unstaged and staged changes, git show, and what HEAD really means.

Jul 27, 20268 min

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Git Staging and Commits, Explained

Master the Git staging area: git add, what staging is for, and writing good commits with git commit, the core save-your-work loop, with diagrams.

Jul 27, 20268 min

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Git Basics: Create Your First Repository

Install Git, set your name and email, run git init, and read git status. The very first steps to put a project under version control.

Jul 26, 20267 min

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Why Git? Version Control, Explained

What Git and version control are, the problems they solve, and the mental model of commits as save points, the safety net under every project you build.

Jul 26, 20268 min

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Cursor Origin: Git Hosting Rebuilt for AI Agents

Cursor launched Origin, a Git forge built for AI agents: S3-backed storage, 22 commits a second, and auto-resolved merge conflicts. What it means for devs.

Jun 17, 20268 min