Azure DevOps Services Private

Mastering Azure Repos (AZU114)

Course Length: 1 day

In this course, you will learn to configure and use Azure Repos in basic and advanced ways in order to manage changes to code in a software development effort.

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Course Overview

Azure DevOps provides a set of cloud-hosted tools that software teams can use to quickly plan, develop, test, and deliver value in the form of working software. Azure Repos provide public or private Git repositories that enable better collaboration and cleaner code. To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common Azure DevOps project, on a common codebase.

This course contains several modules, progressively explaining how to configure and use Azure Repos in basic and advanced ways in order to manage changes to code in a software development effort. It is appropriate for all software developers who are using or considering using Azure Repos for Git version control.

Course Benefits

  • Work with Azure repos.
  • Learn about Git concepts.
  • Learn about Visual Studio integration.
  • Learn a wide range of advanced concepts.

Delivery Methods

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.

Course Outline

  1. Introduction to Azure Repos
    1. Azure DevOps overview
    2. Azure Repos overview
    3. Public vs. private repos
    4. Creating, configuring, and securing repos
    5. Hands-on
  2. Git Concepts
    1. DVCS concepts and Git overview
    2. Using Git from the command line
    3. Creating/cloning a repository
    4. Git commit and history
    5. Basic Git workflows
    6. Git for Windows
    7. Hands-on
  3. IDE Integration
    1. Visual Studio Integration
    2. Visual Studio Code Integration
    3. Connecting-to a repository
    4. Basic Git workflows revisited
    5. Associating comments and work items
    6. Viewing commit history
    7. Ignoring files when committing
    8. Hands-on
  4. Working with Azure Repos
    1. Annotating changes (for blame/praise)
    2. Tagging
    3. Editing commit history
    4. Checkout to a previous version
    5. Reverting to a previous version
    6. Resetting to a previous version
    7. Stashing changes
    8. Branching and merging
    9. Rebasing
    10. Pull requests
    11. Branch policies
    12. Code reviews using pull requests
    13. Hands-on
  5. Mastering Azure Repos
    1. Git Hooks and Git extensions
    2. Code Search
    3. GitHub integration
    4. Forking
    5. Workflows (Git Flow, GitHub Flow)
    6. Scalar (f.k.a. VFS for Git)
    7. Repository limits
    8. Hands-on

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

Class Prerequisites

Experience in the following is required for this Azure DevOps Services class:

  • Experience with version control is recommended.

Experience in the following would be useful for this Azure DevOps Services class:

  • Some experience with version control is recommended. Experience with Git, Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code, and C# are also helpful, but not required.

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