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Module 2 of 6Lesson 1 of 2~15 min

A mental model of Git in a team

Learning Git commands without understanding what they move around quickly leads to confusion, then to mistakes. This lesson gives you a clear picture of the path a change follows on its way to production, so you always know where your work stands and what it still has to get through.

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Lesson objective

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to explain where a change is (files, index, local commit, remote repository, main) and tell, from git status and git log, what is missing for it to reach production.

Topics covered

  • understanding Git
  • Git mental model
  • commits and remotes
  • git status
  • Git in a team

In the glossary

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Where it fits

Understand the repository and its pipeline

What happens between my commit and production, and who decides?

Lessons in this module

  1. A mental model of Git in a team (this lesson)
  2. Read a repository and its pipeline before touching it

What you will learn in this module

This lesson is part of the course Git for PMs: ship as a team without putting production at risk

  • Read an existing repository and its pipeline (README, CONTRIBUTING, CODEOWNERS, CI workflows, environments) to know who reviews what, what gets checked and what goes to production, and when.

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