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Learn Git in a Day - The Visual Guide

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Table of Contents

Preface

What You'll Learn

About the Author

Join the Community

Your Feedback Matters

How to Use This Guide

The Companion Kit

Why Git Matters

Stop Naming Files "final…

Why You Can't Skip This

Words You'll Hear a Lot

All You Need to Follow A…

Get Git Up and Running

Install Git in 30 Seconds

Tell Git Who You Are

Make Sure It's Worked

What We've Done

Your First Save Point

Set Up the Project Folder

Turn a Folder Into a Repo

See What Git Sees

Write Some Actual Code

The Checkpoint Before th…

Save Your First Snapshot

Change, Stage, Commit - …

Look Back at What You've…

The Four-Step Rhythm

What We've Done

Oops - How to Undo Anyth…

Throw Away Changes You D…

Take a File Off the Stage

Undo a Commit Without Lo…

Put Your Work on Pause

What We've Done

Work on Two Things at On…

What Branches Actually A…

Spin Up a New Branch

Jump Between Branches

Do Both at Once

Build a Feature in Isola…

Bring Your Work Back Tog…

Clean Up After Yourself

When Git Can't Figure It…

See the Big Picture

What We've Done

Put Your Code in the Clo…

Create Your GitLab Accou…

Set Up SSH So You Never …

Create a Home for Your C…

Link Your Local Repo to …

Send Your Code Up

Bring Changes Down

Fetch vs. Pull - What's …

Push a Branch to GitLab

Download an Existing Repo

What We've Done

Code Review and Teamwork

How Real Teams Ship Code

Start a Feature the Righ…

Ask Your Team to Review

Give Feedback Like a Pro

Write Descriptions Peopl…

Commit Messages That Don…

What a Normal Workday Lo…

What We've Done

Keep Your Branch in Sync

Why Your Branch Falls Be…

Watch It Happen

Replay Your Work on Top

Merge - Now It's Clean

Pull Without the Ugly Me…

When Rebase Fights Back

The One Rule You Must Fo…

What We've Done

Keep Junk Out of Your Re…

Not Everything Belongs i…

Write Your First .gitign…

Pattern Matching in a Nu…

Already Tracked? Here's …

A Real-World .gitignore

Ignore Files Across Ever…

What We've Done

Mark the Milestones

Tag Your First Release

Two Kinds of Tags

List and Inspect Tags

Tag a Commit After the F…

Share Your Tags with the…

Travel Back to a Tag

Remove a Tag You Don't N…

How to Name Your Tags

Tags vs. Releases - What…

What We've Done

Tricks That Save You Time

Stop Typing the Same Com…

Find Out Who Wrote That …

Compare Changes Like a D…

Time-Travel to an Old Co…

Fix Your Last Commit

Prune Dead Branches

What We've Done

Your Git Cheatsheet

Starting a Project

Day-to-Day Workflow

Viewing History

SSH Authentication

Merge Conflicts

When Things Go Wrong

Beyond the Command Line

Terminal UI and CLI Enha…

Hooks and Quality Gates

Multi-Repository Managem…

History Rewriting and Cl…

Release and Commit Workf…

Security and Signing

Analytics and Visualizat…

Diff and Merge Tools

Large Files and Reposito…

Repository Utilities

Self-Hosted Git Servers

Afterword

Let's Stay Connected

Metadata

Author(s): Aymen El Amri (eon01)

Created: June 03, 2026

Last Updated: June 03, 2026

Author's Progress: 100%

Version: v4

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