Git and GitHub Complete Master Class

Take your Git and GitHub skills to an advanced level with this hands-on course designed for developers who want to streamline their workflow and collaborate more effectively. Through 10 focused modules, you’ll go beyond the basics to master advanced version control techniques and GitHub features that support professional development projects. You’ll begin with commit history rewriting and rebasing, learning how to amend commits, resolve conflicts, and refine repository history for clean, professional collaboration. From there, you’ll expand your toolkit with Git tags, stash, and other advanced operations that improve efficiency in real-world projects. The course then explores GitHub’s collaboration features, from pull requests and Flavored Markdown to managing Issues and Projects. You’ll also gain practical experience with the GitHub API for seamless project management and versioning. Finally, you’ll master GitHub templates and Pages, learning how to configure websites directly from repositories and set up consistent contribution workflows. Tips, tricks, and terminal customizations will help you optimize Git Bash and boost productivity. By the end of this 10-module course, you will have: - Mastered advanced Git operations including rebasing, rewriting history, and tagging. - Learned to use GitHub pull requests, Issues, Projects, and the API for collaboration. - Built and customized GitHub Pages sites directly from repositories. - Developed tips and workflows to make Git and GitHub more productive in professional environments. This course is designed for developers and software engineers who are already familiar with Git and GitHub fundamentals and are ready to level up their expertise. If you want to refine your version control skills and work more effectively with teams, this course will give you the tools to excel. This course features Coursera Coach — your interactive learning companion that helps you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress.

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Build a solid foundation in Git and GitHub with this hands-on course that takes you beyond the basics. You'll gain practical experience managing branches, undoing changes, configuring tools, and collaborating securely via SSH—all essential for effective software development workflows. You’ll begin by mastering Git branching and learning to undo changes confidently using checkout, revert, and reset. Next, the course introduces best practices for syncing with GitHub, including pushing and pulling commits and establishing secure SSH connections. You'll also explore configuring Git with custom Bash prompts and default editors. As the course progresses, you’ll install and configure diff and merge tools like p4merge, learning how to compare changes across various stages and branches. Finally, a deep dive into advanced commands like cherry-picking, merging, and resolving conflicts equips you with expert-level Git skills. This course is ideal for developers, DevOps professionals, and technical teams working in collaborative environments. A basic understanding of Git is required. The course is best suited for learners at the intermediate level.