Advanced Git

This half day session on Git by the trainers at GitHub will teach you the ins and outs of Git. Topics will include:

• Interactive rebasing with both the traditional squash, reword and edit, in addition to the new fixup and autosquash.
• Understanding the modes of git reset and how it affects, preserves, or destructs the history, index, and working directory.
• Searching through history with string, combination, and pickaxe approaches.
• Diffing changes past refactorings.
• Finding the original author of methods in refactored and relocated code.
• Administratively shaping history with git filter-branch at milestones or after a Subversion import.
• Minimizing repetitive merge efforts with rerere.
• Controlling pull and push behavior with advanced configuration options.
• Manually editing the refspec and git config files.
• Pushing to and pulling from multiple destinations.
• Tag signing, tag merging, and signed tag business scenarios.
• Adding Git notes and their effective namespace use.
• Relocating chunks of work with rebase onto
• Leveraging several other cutting-edge Git 1.8 features.