Overview
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Use Git effectively within Visual studio. Learn about the mapping between Git and GitHub commands and the tools in Visual Studio.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Use Git effectively within Visual Studio
- Install Git
- Install GitHub Extension in Visual Studio
- Work with multiple users in the exercise files.
- Don’t be afraid of the GUI
- Tour of Git GUI tools
- Git concepts and commands
- Initialize a new repository: PowerShell
- Initialize a new repository: VS folder
- Initialize a new repository: VS solution
- Initialize a new repository: GitHub
- Add files: PowerShell
- Add files: VS
- Rename files: PowerShell
- Move files: PowerShell
- Delete files: PowerShell
- File operations: VS
- Add a remote repository: PowerShell
- Install Git Credential Manager for Windows
- Connect and authenticate: PowerShell
- Connect and authenticate: VS
- Create an empty GitHub repo: VS
- Sync existing local remote to GitHub
- Examine GitHub configuration information
- Collaborate with shared repositories
- Understand when to clone a repository
- Understand when to fork a repository
- Clone the repo: PowerShell
- Clone the repo: VS
- Fork a repo
- Clone a forked repo
- Change the PowerShell command prompt
- Show the Git help files from the command prompt
- Commit to local: VS
- Push to remote: VS
- Commit and push: VS
- Undo changes
- Show history with Git log: PowerShell
- Show history in Team Explorer
- Compare differences: VS
- When to use revert or reset
- Rollback to prior commit with revert
- Rollback a local repo with reset
- Push to remote by team member
- Pull and push
- Use Fetch or Pull to sync with remote
- Sync: VS
- View merge conflicts
- Handle merge conflicts
- Explore the basic branch actions: PowerShell
- Explore the branch tools in Visual Studio
- Basic branch actions: VS
- Commit changes to another branch
- Merge changes into the master
- Setup a public repository on GitHub
- Fork and clone the repository
- Verify forked project runs on computer
- Change the HTML in fork
- Commit and push to fork
- Create the pull request
- Review and compare the pull request
- Have a conversation with contributors
- GitHub tools
- Mark milestons with Git tags
- Next steps
