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Git Introduction
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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

Welcome back. In this lecture, we'll provide you with a quick-fire introduction to Git and how it can be used to manage your source code. We'll show you the basic structure of a Git setup and then provide you with details regarding all of the common Git commands and syntax. This lecture and the next one are intended to bring those who are unfamiliar with Git up to speed before we deep dive into Bitbucket itself. If you're already familiar with Git, feel free to skip straight ahead to the Bitbucket lectures. Okay, let's begin. Before we drop into any Git commands, we need to have a clear understanding of the overall Git workflow and the major parts within. Git, by its very nature, is a distributed version control system, therefore, some parts will be local and others will be remote. In this diagram, the main parts of the Git workflow are one, the Stash; two, the Workspace; three, the Index or Staging space; four, the Local Repository and five, the Origin Repository. You will most often be working and editing locally, moving files between the Workspace, Index or Stage and the Local Repository. 

Occasionally, you'll resync with the remote Origin Repository by pushing up and pulling down updates. Let's briefly discuss each of these parts now. The Stash. The Stash acts as a temporary storage area where you can transition out current changes you've made in your workspace so that you can work on something else. Stashing allows you to store coding changes that aren't yet completed and therefore not ready to be committed. The Workspace. The Workspace is nothing more than an area where you do your actual coding changes. The Workspace contains tracked files, untracked files and a special directory named dot git. The Index or staging area. The Index or staging area is used for preparing commits. Selected modified files within the Workspace are added to the staging area for the next commit. The Local Repository. Performing a commit will take all modified and staged files and place them into the local repository. Origin Repository. The local repository can be synced with the remote origin repository by pushing and pulling, or fetching. All except the Origin Repository are local, meaning that they exist on your local workstation. The Origin Repository typically exists elsewhere and is often communicated with across the internet. For example, products like Bitbucket cloud and GitHub act as a remote origin repository.

 When you clone from these remote origins, you pull a complete copy of the remote origin repository locally. Then as you go about making local changes to the codebase you will perform any number of Git tasks to manage the changes for you, ranging from staging the code using the git add command, committing the changes into the local repository using the git commit command and finally through to pushing the changes back to the remote origin using the git push command. As can be seen in the diagram, the various Git commands perform updates between various parts of the full Git distributed system. Okay, the Git introduction has now been completed. Go ahead and close this slideshow and we'll see you shortly in the next one where we present commonly used Git commands.

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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).