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Certificate courseSoftware DevelopmentBeginner
Git & GitHub for Engineering Teams
Work the way engineering teams do: a real mental model of Git, clean branches, reviewable pull requests, release workflows and how to recover from any mistake.
About 1 h of reading, plus practice5 modules · 25 quiz questions · final exam
Skills you'll learn
What you'll be able to do
- Explain what commits, branches and HEAD really are
- Merge and rebase confidently and resolve conflicts
- Open small, well-described pull requests and review others' code
- Follow trunk-based development, tags and semantic versioning
- Undo almost any mistake with reflog, revert, reset and bisect
Syllabus
- 1
Git's model: snapshots, commits and branches
4 min5-question quiz- Git stores snapshots, not diffs
- The three areas
- Branches are just movable labels
- Remotes and tracking branches
- Writing good commits
- Summary
- 2
Merging, rebasing and conflicts
4 min5-question quiz- Fast-forward merges
- Three-way merges
- Rebase: replaying your work
- Interactive rebase: tidy before review
- Which to use?
- Resolving conflicts
- Preventing conflicts
- Cherry-pick
- Summary
- 3
Pull requests and code review
5 min5-question quiz- What a good PR looks like
- Automated checks (CI)
- Protected branches and CODEOWNERS
- How to review code
- Receiving review
- Merge strategies on GitHub
- Summary
- 4
Team workflows, releases and versioning
4 min5-question quiz- Trunk-based development
- GitHub flow
- GitFlow
- Release branches and hotfixes
- Feature flags
- Tags and semantic versioning
- Conventional commits and changelogs
- Monorepos and polyrepos
- Working with issues and projects
- Open-source contribution flow
- Summary
- 5
Recovering from mistakes
5 min5-question quiz- Undo commands at a glance
- revert vs reset
- Committed to the wrong branch
- The reflog: Git's safety net
- stash
- Finding the commit that broke something: bisect
- Leaked a secret
- Large files and blame
- Summary
- ★Final exam & certificate15 questions · 30 minutes · 70% to pass · 3 tries
Your certificate
HireSol certified in Git & GitHub for Engineering Teams
Signed by HireSol and verifiable online with its own ID. Download it as a PDF, add it to LinkedIn in one click, and it shows on your HireSol profile to companies.
Questions
- Who is this course for?
- College students, freshers and anyone switching careers who wants a job-ready grounding in Git & GitHub for Engineering Teams. It's a beginner course; every module explains the ideas with worked examples from real jobs.
- Is the course online and self-paced?
- Yes. It's fully online: about 1 hours of reading across 5 modules, on your phone or laptop, whenever it suits you.
- How do I get the certificate?
- Pass the quiz at the end of each module (70% or more), then the final exam: 15 questions drawn from a larger pool, 30 minutes, 70% to pass, 3 tries. Your certificate is issued the moment you pass.
- Can recruiters check that my certificate is real?
- Yes. Every certificate has its own page on hiresol.cloud with an ID and a digital signature from HireSol, so anyone can verify your name, the course, your score and the date.
- What happens if I fail the final exam?
- You have 3 tries, with new questions each time. If all 3 miss the mark, the course locks and you can unlock it again to start over.