Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced

A ten-part, workshop-style journey from your very first commit to rebase, reflog and bisect — with the story of how Git conquered the world, and a real practice repository on GitHub. No prior version-control experience needed.

10 parts · ~69 min of reading, in order, nothing assumed.

Start with Part 1

📦 Practice repo for the workshop

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 1

Why Version Control Exists: A Short History of Git

From final_v2_REALLY_final.zip to SourceSafe, SVN, and the 2005 drama that made Linus Torvalds write Git in two weeks. The story that explains why Git works the way it does. Aug 7, 2026 6 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 2

Your First Repository: init, add, commit

Install Git, learn the photo-album mental model, and make your very first commits — with a clear picture of the working directory, the staging area and history. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 3

Reading History and Undoing Small Mistakes

git log, git diff, and the level-one rescue moves: unstage, discard, amend. Plus .gitignore and the art of commit messages that explain why. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 4

Branches: Parallel Universes for Your Code

Branches are Git's superpower — cheap, instant parallel timelines. Create them, switch between them, and merge the good ones back. The workshop project levels up here. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 5

Merging and Conflicts, Without Fear

Merge conflicts are a conversation, not a disaster. Cause one on purpose, read the markers calmly, and resolve it like it's no big deal — because it isn't. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 6

GitHub: Your Code in the Cloud

Remotes, clone, push, pull and fetch — how your local repository and GitHub stay in sync, how SSH keys work, and why your GitHub profile is your new portfolio. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 7

Pull Requests and Code Review, Together

The pull-request workflow end to end: open one from a real branch, review it, and understand what the merge, squash and rebase buttons actually do. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 8

Rewriting History (Carefully): Rebase, Cherry-Pick and Stash

Interactive rebase to tidy your commits, cherry-pick to copy them, stash to pocket work in progress — and the golden rule that keeps history rewriting safe. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 9

The Rescue Kit: Reflog, Reset, Revert and Bisect

Nothing in Git is ever truly lost. Reflog resurrects deleted work, reset and revert undo the right way, and bisect hunts down the exact commit that broke your app. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read

Git & GitHub: Zero to Advanced · Part 10

Under the Hood: How Git Thinks — and Where to Go Next

Commits are snapshots, not diffs: the object model that makes Git fast, plus tags, releases, branching strategies, a CI teaser, and your daily-habits checklist. Aug 7, 2026 7 min read