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Advanced Git Mastery for Engineering Teams

History surgery, large-repo workflows, release discipline, and team-scale Git practices

A deep practical Git course for engineers who already know commit, branch, merge, pull, and push, but want professional control over history, collaboration, recovery, and repository scale. The course uses small repeatable projects to teach Git's object model, revision selection, interactive rebase, safe force-push workflows, conflict reuse, bisect-driven debugging, worktrees, sparse checkouts, release engineering, branch protection, signed history, and disaster recovery. Each module includes command-line examples, decision rules, failure modes, and labs that mirror real engineering team situations.

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What you will learn

Leave with a working mental model.

  1. 01 Explain Git objects, refs, HEAD, the index, revision ranges, and the commit graph
  2. 02 Use log, diff, blame, show, pickaxe, and bisect to investigate history precisely
  3. 03 Rewrite local history with amend, reset, interactive rebase, autosquash, and rebase --onto
  4. 04 Resolve merge and rebase conflicts confidently, including rerere-based conflict reuse
  5. 05 Use worktrees, sparse checkout, partial clone, submodules, and subtrees in large repositories
  6. 06 Design release, hotfix, protected-branch, and pull-request workflows for teams
  7. 07 Recover deleted work with reflog and handle secret-removal incidents responsibly
  8. 08 Complete a capstone repository workflow from feature branch to release and hotfix

Before you begin

Prerequisites

  • Comfort with basic Git commands: clone, status, add, commit, branch, merge, pull, push
  • Experience opening or reviewing pull requests
  • A terminal, Git 2.40 or newer recommended, and a safe practice repository
  • Basic ability to run a small test script from the command line

Curriculum

Course contents

12 modules · 60 lessons

01 Module 1: Advanced Mental Model and Lab Setup 5 lessons
  1. 01 Git Objects, Refs, HEAD, and the Commit Graph Preview
  2. 02 The Index, Pathspecs, and Partial Staging
  3. 03 Revision Selection and Commit Ranges
  4. 04 Project 1: Build a Controlled Practice Repository
  5. 05 Module 1 Check: Advanced Mental Model and Lab Setup Quiz
02 Module 2: Precision History Inspection 5 lessons
  1. 01 Log Recipes for Real Investigations Preview
  2. 02 Diff Mastery: Ranges, Words, Renames, and Pickaxe
  3. 03 Blame Without Blame: Finding Context Responsibly
  4. 04 Bisect: Binary Search for Regressions
  5. 05 Module 2 Check: Precision History Inspection Quiz
03 Module 3: Rewriting Local History Safely 5 lessons
  1. 01 Amend and Reset: What Moves and What Stays Preview
  2. 02 Interactive Rebase for Clean Review History
  3. 03 Autosquash and Exec: Rebase with Tests
  4. 04 Rebase --onto and Branch Surgery
  5. 05 Module 3 Check: Rewriting Local History Safely Quiz
04 Module 4: Merging, Rebasing, and Conflict Mastery 5 lessons
  1. 01 Merge Strategies and History Shape Preview
  2. 02 Rebase Versus Merge Decision Rules
  3. 03 Conflict Resolution During Merge and Rebase
  4. 04 Rerere: Reusing Recorded Resolutions
  5. 05 Module 4 Check: Merging, Rebasing, and Conflict Mastery Quiz
05 Module 5: Remote Collaboration and Protected Branches 5 lessons
  1. 01 Remote Tracking Refs, Upstream Branches, and Fetch Specs Preview
  2. 02 Safe Force Push with --force-with-lease
  3. 03 Stacked Pull Requests and Dependent Branches
  4. 04 Protected Branches, Required Checks, and Merge Queues
  5. 05 Module 5 Check: Remote Collaboration and Protected Branches Quiz
06 Module 6: Release Engineering with Git 5 lessons
  1. 01 Annotated Tags, Signed Tags, and Version Markers Preview
  2. 02 Release Branches and Hotfix Branches
  3. 03 Generating Changelogs from History
  4. 04 Project 2: Release Simulation
  5. 05 Module 6 Check: Release Engineering with Git Quiz
07 Module 7: Large Repositories, Worktrees, and Sparse Workflows 5 lessons
  1. 01 Partial Clone and Shallow Clone Tradeoffs Preview
  2. 02 Sparse Checkout in Cone Mode
  3. 03 Git Worktree for Parallel Development
  4. 04 Submodules, Subtrees, and Vendor Code Decisions
  5. 05 Module 7 Check: Large Repositories, Worktrees, and Sparse Workflows Quiz
08 Module 8: Automation, Hooks, Signing, and Productivity 5 lessons
  1. 01 Local Hooks and Pre-commit Quality Gates Preview
  2. 02 Signed Commits and Trust Models
  3. 03 Aliases, Config Includes, and Everyday Speed
  4. 04 CI Feedback Loops and Git Workflow Design
  5. 05 Module 8 Check: Automation, Hooks, Signing, and Productivity Quiz
09 Module 9: Disaster Recovery and Repository Repair 5 lessons
  1. 01 Reflog Rescue Scenarios Preview
  2. 02 Recovering Deleted Branches and Detached HEAD Work
  3. 03 Secret Removal and History Rewriting Incidents
  4. 04 Repository Maintenance: fsck, gc, and Commit-Graph Basics
  5. 05 Module 9 Check: Disaster Recovery and Repository Repair Quiz
10 Module 10: Advanced Debugging and Forensics Project 5 lessons
  1. 01 Forensic Workflow: From Symptom to Commit Preview
  2. 02 Range-diff for Reviewing Rewritten Series
  3. 03 Debugging Remote and Credential Problems
  4. 04 Project 3: Regression Incident Drill
  5. 05 Module 10 Check: Advanced Debugging and Forensics Quiz
11 Module 11: Designing Team Git Workflows 5 lessons
  1. 01 Trunk-Based Development, Git Flow, and Release Branching Preview
  2. 02 Commit Standards and Pull Request Contracts
  3. 03 Migrating a Messy Repository to a Better Workflow
  4. 04 Maintainer Playbook: Reviews, Backports, and Reverts
  5. 05 Module 11 Check: Designing Team Git Workflows Quiz
12 Module 12: Capstone - Advanced Git Delivery Simulation 5 lessons
  1. 01 Capstone Setup: Repository, Tests, Branch Policy, and Release Plan Preview
  2. 02 Capstone Feature Stack: Build, Review, Rewrite, and Merge
  3. 03 Capstone Incident: Regression, Bisect, Hotfix, and Backport
  4. 04 Final Assessment: Advanced Git Operating Checklist
  5. 05 Module 12 Check: Advanced Git Delivery Simulation Quiz