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Programming · course 15 of 105

The Everyday Git Handbook

Use Git every day without guessing: commit exactly what you mean, branch and merge, fix conflicts, undo safely and work with a remote, checked against real Git.

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What it teaches

The Git you use every day, with no guessing: what git status --short is telling you, staging and committing exactly what you mean, branches and merges (fast-forward or merge commit), fixing a merge conflict, undoing things safely (restore, --amend, revert, the three kinds of reset, stash), and working with a remote (push, fetch, pull, ahead and behind). The AI asks 3 questions, places you, shows a short card per module, then gives you one item at a time: you say what Git will print or do after some commands, or type the command for a job, and it checks you against an answer key: everything about what Git prints or does came from running real Git.

How long

44 items. About 35-50 rounds plus a 12-item final: 2-3 sessions (estimate, not timed with a real student). The tutor gives a one-line save code at the end of each session.

The modules

4 modules, drilled one item at a time.

  1. M0

    The words

    Concept questions

  2. M1

    Saving your work

    Say what Git prints, or type the command

  3. M2

    Branches and merging

    Say what a branch or merge does, or type the command

  4. M3

    Undoing things and working with a remote

    Say what an undo, push, fetch or pull does, or type the command

Before it teaches, it asks

  1. 1
    What do you use Git for (your own code, a team at work, a class), and which commands do you already use?
    AI voice (ElevenLabs)
  2. 2
    notes.txt was committed earlier. You add a line to it. What does git status --short print?$ echo more >> notes.txt$ git status --short
  3. 3
    main has 1 commit. You made feature from it and committed once on feature; main hasn’t moved. On main you run git merge feature. Does it make a merge commit?

What’s exact, and what isn’t

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Straight from the course’s own notes.

Produced by running Git
Every key about what Git prints or does came from running git 2.39.5 on the item’s exact commands in a fresh scratch repository (remote items use a local bare repository as “origin”). Every accepted answer to a type-the-command question was run and does the job; every listed wrong command was run and doesn’t. 6 of the 26 listed wrong answers were also produced by running the mistake. A planted-error test (5 errors) was caught.
Sourced
Definitions and rules from Pro Git and the git-scm.com manual, short quotes matched word for word on the pages on 2026-10-10.
Honest limit
The tutor can’t run commands. Messages can differ slightly in other Git versions; the meaning taught here doesn’t. Never practise reset --hard or restore on work you care about.
Not in it yet
Rebase, cherry-pick, tags, reflog, GitHub pull requests, SSH keys and logins.