Interactive Visualization with Git

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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.

Background:

Directions:

  • Go to tutorial at: http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/
  • Complete all activities under the Main 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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