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Demo 3: Repository Management - GitHub Desktop Client
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Description

Take this beginner-level course on 'Atlassian BitBucket' to delve into the core principles and applied benefits for your software projects. This course, made up of 8 lectures and 14 demos, will expertly teach and explain how to perform Git-related tasks along with implementing and connecting BitBucket to third parties while always being aware of the various security options available.

This course would appeal to a range of job roles including software developers, build and release engineers and DevOps practitioners. All of the skills that you will gain from doing this course will yield a tangible dividend for the projects with your enterprise; allowing you to use, control and manage BitBucket to manage and maintain your software products.

Learning Objectives 

  • Understand the basic principles of version control as implemented using the Git protocol and
  • Learn how to effectively use BitBucket to manage and maintain your software projects
  • Assess the benefits of using BitBucket to manage and secure your software engineering assets
  • Recognize and explain how to perform all basic Git related tasks such as creating and cloning a repository, branching, and merging.
  • Study to implement and connect BitBucket with other 3rd party systems 
  • Be aware of the different security options available to secure your BitBucket setup
  • Be able to use, control, and manage BitBucket through either using the web-based administration console and/or by using a git client.

Intended Audience

  • Software Developers 
  • Software Build and Release Engineers
  • DevOps Practitioners

Prerequisites

To be able to get the most out of this course we recommend having a basic understanding of:

  • Software development and the software development life cycle
  • Software development tools
  • Version control and associated workflows

Related Training Content

After completing this course we recommend taking the 'Introduction to Continuous Integration' Course

To discover more content like this, you will find all of our training in the Cloud Academy Content Training Library.

Transcript

Okay, welcome back. In this next demonstration, we're going to do the same thing again, but this time we're going to use a third-party desktop client, the GitHub Desktop Client, in fact, to manage our repository. So let's get started. Again, the first thing we'll do is we'll create a new repository. We'll call it CADemo3, ensuring it's a Git repository, clicking the create repository button. And then we've successfully created the repository. This time we'll select HTTPS and we'll copy the URL, copy. At this time, we'll use the GitHub Desktop Client. And then we'll add in the repository, since we're going to use the client to manage it. Under File, we'll clone the repository. Specify URL, which we just copied. And we're going to put it into our demos folder. Click Clone, and the Desktop Client clones it and manages it for us. So if we jump back into the terminal, and we now do a directory listing in our demos folder, you can see again that we've got a new local repository, this time named CADemo3. And it's got our special .git directory. So again, we'll copy an existing file in one of the previous directories. C-A demo slash index, into this directory. And we'll do a git status. And you can see that it's showing up as an untracked file. Okay, this time as mentioned, we're going to use the GitHub Desktop Client to manage this.

 And you can see here that Index.html is showing up as a changed file with this plus icon, which means we need to stage it and then commit it. So the staging will be done for us in the background, but we'll give it an initial message. This time, we'll call it first commit of project. We'll commit to master as our local repository. And then we can publish the branch. We'll push it up to the remote repository being held within BitBucket. So let's click publish. The pushing is going up to the origin. And that's now completed successfully. So if we jump back into BitBucket, again if we reload, you can see our file. Now if we jump back into the terminal and what we'll do is we'll open up this directory inside Visual Code. We'll make a small edit. And we'll jump back into the GitHub client. And you'll notice here now that the Index.html file is showing that it's been changed, as per this icon, and it's clever enough to actually show the lines between the last commit and the current change. So here is our most recent edit on this file. So again, we can add a message. We can commit to master in the local repository. And here we can push back up to the remote repository. You see that this one file or one commit. And at the same time, it's going to download any changes that have been pushed into the remote repository that we don't have locally. So finally, jumping back into BitBucket, we look at the commits. You can see that this is our latest commit that we just pushed up. If we jump into the commit, here again you can see our change. Okay, that completes this demonstration. Go ahead and close it, and we'll see you shortly in the next one.

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Jeremy is a Content Lead Architect and DevOps SME here at Cloud Academy where he specializes in developing DevOps technical training documentation.

He has a strong background in software engineering, and has been coding with various languages, frameworks, and systems for the past 25+ years. In recent times, Jeremy has been focused on DevOps, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Security, Kubernetes, and Machine Learning.

Jeremy holds professional certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS).