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Discussion on: How to Get Better with Git

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Waylon Walker

I really like that you included leaning on a mentor and watching closely to how others naturally use git.

There is no shortcut for practice. If you really want to level up your git skills without wrecking a real project practice. Make a new project, git init, add a file, edit it in different ways and commit all along. Try to branch, rebase and merge as well. When your done delete it and move in with better git skills.

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Anita Graham

I find that faux projects don't offer the 'drive' to do enough things and its hard to make mistakes that matter!

You need to use git on a real project to develop the habits of git (make a new branch every time you are tackling a new issue, for instance).

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Ana Vela

That's a great idea to start a new project just to practice git. Concepts like merge conflicts will happen in real work scenarios, so I feel practicing how to resolve those in an environment without stress is time well spent!