Git & GitHub Mastery Roadmap

A 20-week, hands-on guide that takes absolute beginners from installing Git to advanced collaboration, history rewriting, automation, and secure open-source contribution on GitHub.

Duration

20 weeks

Level

Beginner to Advanced

Learners

15K+

Career Opportunity

Version Control Specialist, DevOps Engineer, Release Manager, Software Engineer, Open-Source Maintainer

Prerequisites

Basic computer literacy

Familiarity with command-line interface

A free GitHub account

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Learning Path

1. Getting Started & Installation

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Resources:

Why Version Control? Why Git?

Installing Git (Windows, macOS, Linux)

First-Time Git Configuration

2. Git Fundamentals

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Snapshots, Staging Area & Commits

Basic Everyday Commands (add, commit, status, log)

3. Branching & Merging

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Git Branches Explained

Merging Strategies & Resolving Conflicts

4. Remote Repositories & GitHub Essentials

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Creating & Cloning Repos on GitHub

Pushing & Pulling Changes

5. Collaboration: Forks, Pull Requests & Code Review

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Forking Workflow

Creating a Pull Request

6. Rewriting History Safely

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Interactive Rebase & Squashing

Amending & Resetting Commits

7. Advanced Branching Strategies

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Git-Flow & Trunk-Based Development

8. Stashing, Cherry-Picking & Submodules

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git stash & git cherry-pick

Managing Submodules

9. GitHub Actions & Automation

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Workflows, Jobs & Runners

10. Security, Secrets & Dependabot

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Managing Secrets & Tokens

Automatic Dependency Updates

11. Continuous Integration & Deployment

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CI on Every Pull Request

Deploying to GitHub Pages, Vercel & Render

12. Large Repositories & Monorepos

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Git LFS & Handling Large Files

Sparse-Checkout & Partial Clones

13. Debugging & Performance

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bisect, blame & reflog

14. Become an Open-Source Maintainer

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Issue Templates, Labels & Project Boards

Semantic Versioning & Release Automation

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