Git and GitHub Workflow Fundamentals: Free Course

About this course

Study Git and GitHub Workflow Fundamentals through this free English video course from freeCodeCamp. The classroom brings together all 11 public recordings from the selected source curriculum, totaling approximately 16m. You can watch the teaching sequence, search the lesson list and keep track of the recordings you have completed. The course focuses on the subject named in its title. Its value comes from following the explanations and making your own small practice attempts, with enough time to inspect the result and explain the decisions involved.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Describe commits and their history
• Follow a branch-based collaboration workflow
• Clone and work with a local repository
• Trace the two-step commit process
• Explain merging and conflict resolution
• Compare rebasing and undo operations in the recorded examples

Skills you’ll gain

• Git
• GitHub
• Branching
• Version control

Course Overview

Finite introductory sequence covers commits, branching, cloning, merging, conflicts, rebasing and undoing work.

The source lesson list includes “Git & GitHub: Introduction to Git & GitHub”, “Git & GitHub: How Commits Work”, “Git & GitHub: Undoing Commits”. The classroom retains their original titles and positions. Introductions, supplementary explanations and complete-course recordings remain present whenever they are part of the source. A repeated recording is retained at each original position, allowing the course to be checked against the published teaching sequence.

Repository concepts

Start with the introductory and workflow lessons. Explain the relationship between a working copy, a commit and a branch before carrying out a command.

Local work and commits

Follow cloning, common commands and the two-step commit process. Inspect which changes are prepared for a commit and connect the resulting history with an intentional change.

Combining changes

Study merging and conflicts. Compare two different edits to a small file and explain why the same line can require a decision before the histories combine.

History operations

Follow rebasing and undoing commits in a disposable practice repository. Identify which part of the history changes and explain the intended result before applying an operation.

Who is this for?

This course suits learners who want the specific subject described above and who can work at the stated level. It is also useful as a recorded reference when revisiting a concept or comparing a practice attempt with a demonstrated example. Beginners should give the foundational explanations time before moving to more elaborate applications. Experienced learners can use the lesson names to locate a topic, then inspect the surrounding context before applying a technique.

Before you start

Basic command-line familiarity is useful. Practice in a small disposable repository so that each operation can be inspected. GitHub account features are separate from free video viewing.

Put the lessons into practice

Create a local repository containing an original short reading-list file. Make two small commits, create a branch and change one entry. Merge the branch and inspect the history. In a separate disposable copy, create a simple conflict and explain the resolution. Compare the effect of an undo operation with editing the file in a new commit, keeping each exercise easy to repeat.

Treat this suggested exercise as independent practice provided by WikiFree. Keep a short working note containing your inputs, assumptions, result and one point you still need to check. Revisit the relevant recording when a step is unclear, then attempt a small variation without following the demonstration line by line. A result you can explain and reproduce is a more useful study outcome than simply recognizing a familiar term. The exercise is not submitted to an instructor for grading.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching these public recordings and using WikiFree completion tracking does not award a certificate, academic credit, an examination voucher or instructor assessment. The video curriculum is the material included here. Separate platform assignments, credentials and paid services are not part of video viewing. Use the practice output to review which concepts you can explain, which steps you can repeat independently and which questions need another look at the teaching.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: freeCodeCamp. Videos play from the freeCodeCamp channel on YouTube.