Session Spotlight
#gitPanic - Merging and Rebasing
Wednesday, July 31, 2024 - 3:30 PM UTC, for 1 hour.
Regular, 60 minute presentation
Room: African 30
git
gitPanic
GitHub
version control
Git is hard. It's also something you're often expected to know in depth, but rarely taught more than the basics. This talk takes more complicated git topics and breaks them down. You should walk away with the terminology and mental models you need to navigate conversations about merging and rebasing in a team work setting.
Prerequisites
Ideally you will have created a branch and committed work before. If you haven't, don't worry! We'll cover that too!
Take Aways
- What git is
- What git does
- What information git stores and how to find it
- Why merging and rebasing are necessary
- Benefits of merging vs rebasing
- How to escape a bad merge or rebase
- What are refs, how to use them, and why they are your friend
- How to fetch, push, and pull
- Fast-foward merge vs three-way merge
- Rebasing and interactive rebasing
- Squash merging and squash rebasing
- Resolving merge conflicts
- Some tools to help you git