GitHub Desktop Tutorial for beginners

How to use GitHub Desktop video tutorial

The magic of GitHub Desktop is that it hides much of the Git plumbing from the user, so developers can concentrate on the porcelain.

This short but thorough GitHub Desktop video tutorial will turn beginners into experts, and teach both beginners and even advanced Git users how to use GitHub’s Git GUI tool to perform tasks including the following:

  • Manage a Git commit history.
  • Perform collaborative Git operations.
  • Push and pull to remote GitHub repositories.
  • Take risks by working in isolated Git branches.
  • Merge code and avoid merge conflicts.
  • Create and approve GitHub pull requests.

This quick GitHub Desktop video tutorial is all you need to go from a casual user to a Git and GitHub expert.


Cameron McKenzie

Cameron McKenzie is an AWS Certified AI Practitioner, Machine Learning Engineer, Solutions Architect and author of many popular books in the software development and Cloud Computing space. His growing YouTube channel training devs in Java, Spring, AI and ML has well over 30,000 subscribers.


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