Interactive Visualization with Git

Title	Visual Git LOCAL-commands
Overview	Students learn from an interactive visual git simulator / game. This activity focuses on LOCAL Git functionality (such as that on your laptop, NOT remote internet-based code repositories).
Prerequisite Knowledge	Git_Activity_1 and Git_Activity_2 or an introductory understanding of what SCM is about, and basic git commands.
Learning Objectives	Able to ... Create a branch. Checkout a branch. Create a tag. Checkout a tag. Merge a branch into another. Rebase a branch onto another. Cherry-pick commits. Use relative commit references to refer to commits. Move branches to a different commit. Detach and move around HEAD. Explain the difference between a branch, a tag, and HEAD.

Directions:

• Go to tutorial at: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/
• Complete all activities under the Remote tab
• Take screenshots of your solutions, AS YOU GO through each section
  • 15 sections in all, so 15 screenshots
• Init, commit, and then create a remote repo (on github or elsewhere online) of your screenshots
  • Recall: reuse of open source code is encouraged; submission of someone else's answers is academic plagiarism and will be enforced

Deliverables:

• Send URL / link of remote internet-accessibly repository to instructor.
• 15 Screenshots of the solutions of each section, with commits

Assessment:

NA

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Source	http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/
License	The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2012 Peter Cottle

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