Welcome
Have you ever worked in a repository with a lot of history? Perhaps you've had to track down related issues and pull requests in the past, or you've had to find who committed a particular change. If you've ever found yourself in any of these situations, you'll know how important it is to navigate your workspace.
- Who is this for: Developers, GitHub users, users new to Git, students, managers, and teams.
- What you'll learn:
- Find relevant issues and pull requests.
- Search history to find context.
- Make connections within GitHub to help others find things.
- What you'll build: Repository with existing commits, duplicated issues, and a content defect to be fixed.
- Prerequisites: Before you take this course, you may want to go through the GitHub Quickstart introduction on GitHub Docs and Introduction to GitHub course on GitHub Skills.
- How long: This course takes less than 15 min to complete.
In this course, you will:
- Resolve a duplicate issue.
- Find a commit in history.
- Fix a broken sidebar.
How to start this course
- Right-click Start course and open the link in a new tab.
- In the new tab, most of the prompts will automatically fill in for you.
- For owner, choose your personal account or an organization to host the repository.
- We recommend creating a public repository, as private repositories will use Actions minutes.
- Scroll down and click the Create repository button at the bottom of the form.
- After your new repository is created, wait about 20 seconds, then refresh the page. Follow the step-by-step instructions in the new repository's README.