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Hectal
Phase 7Advanced8 of 9 in Git

Git in Production

Line endings, commit messages, CI, and disaster recovery — the operational realities of Git that matter once real teams and real deployments are involved.

This final phase covers what it takes to run Git well in a genuinely production, team, and cross-platform setting: handling files consistently across operating systems, writing history that's actually useful months later, wiring Git into an automated pipeline, and — critically — knowing exactly what to do the moment something goes seriously wrong, including the one mistake that needs a fundamentally different response than the rest: committing a real secret.

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5 topics ~72 min 8 code blocks & diagrams
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7.1

Line Endings, .gitattributes & Large Files (Git LFS)

Windows and Unix-based systems use different invisible line-ending characters, .gitattributes lets you control exactly how Git handles that (and other file-type quirks) per-file-type, and Git LFS solves the genuine problem of large binary files bloating a repository's history forever.

14 min 2 code practice

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7.2

Writing Commit Messages That Matter

A good commit message explains why a change was made, not just what changed — and the Conventional Commits format gives that structure a consistent, machine-readable shape that tooling can build on.

14 min 1 code practice

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7.3

Git in CI/CD Pipelines

A CI/CD pipeline is triggered directly by Git events — a push, a pull request, a tag — and understanding exactly which event triggers what is the key to configuring a pipeline that runs the right checks at the right time.

14 min 1 diagram 1 code practice

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7.4

Disaster Recovery: Recovering Lost Commits & Fixing Real Mistakes

A calm, systematic checklist for the genuinely scary Git moments — a deleted branch, a bad force-push, a corrupted-looking repository — built entirely from tools this course has already covered.

15 min 1 code practice

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7.5

Committed a Secret? Here's Exactly What to Do

Accidentally committing a real password, API key, or credential is fundamentally different from every other Git mistake in this course — the fix isn't just removing it from history, it's assuming it's already compromised and rotating it immediately.

15 min 1 diagram 1 code practice