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Git labs

Interactive Git Labs

Git is a graph of commits plus a few movable pointers. These labs draw that graph, the three areas files travel through, and every pointer a command moves, so commands like reset, rebase and cherry-pick stop being guesswork.

2 free interactive labs — Git Commands, HEAD & Refs (Visual), Git Merge vs Rebase. Each one has an easy-to-hard set of examples, a written explanation and a FAQ, and runs entirely in your browser.

Git Commands, HEAD & Refs (Visual)

Every core git command drawn with arrows: three areas, commits, branches, HEAD and remotes.

  • What HEAD, branches and tags really are
  • The three areas and the command that moves files between them
  • reset --soft/--mixed/--hard, revert, cherry-pick and fetch vs pull
15 minBeginner10 examplesOpen lab

Git Merge vs Rebase

Watch the commit graph change under merge, rebase and squash.

  • Why rebase gives new commit IDs
  • When a merge is a fast-forward
  • The one rule: never rebase shared history
10 minBeginner7 examplesOpen lab

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