Git & GitHub Crash Course for Beginners [2026]

Learn Git and GitHub from scratch with clear examples, real workflows, branching, merging, stashing, rebase, pull requests, and more. Perfect for beginners who want strong foundations. 📚Resources 🔗 Git/GitHub Cheatsheet - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17sW4f865u/ 🔗 logicBase Labs YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/@logicBaseLabs 🔗 Sumit Saha Personal Website - https://www.sumitsaha.me 🔗 Sumit Saha freeCodeCamp Handbooks - https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/author/sumitsaha 🔗 logicBaseLabs LinkedIn Page - https://www.linkedin.com/company/logicbaselabs/ 🔗 logicBaseLabs X - https://x.com/@logicBaseLabs 🔗 logicBaseLabs Facebook - https://facebook.com/@logicBaseLabs ❤️ Support for this channel comes from our friends at Scrimba – the coding platform that's reinvented interactive learning: https://scrimba.com/freecodecamp ⏱️ Chapters - 0:00:00 Introduction to Git & GitHub - 0:02:51 Why Version Control Matters - 0:06:16 How Git Works (Core Concepts) - 0:09:31 Installing Git on Windows/Mac/Linux - 0:12:46 Creating Your First Git Project (git init) - 0:16:06 Understanding git status - 0:19:21 Staging Files with git add - 0:22:41 Committing Changes (git commit) - 0:25:56 Deleting Files Safely (git rm, --cached, -f) - 0:29:11 Viewing Commit History (git log) - 0:31:46 Working with Branches (git branch, checkout) - 0:35:56 Merging Branches - 0:38:51 Merge Conflicts Explained - 0:42:36 Checking Out Older Commits - 0:45:06 Comparing Versions with git diff - 0:47:56 Pushing to GitHub (git push) - 0:51:21 Fetch vs Pull (git fetch, git pull) - 0:54:46 Undoing Changes Safely (git restore) - 0:58:06 Saving Temporary Work (git stash) - 1:01:26 Reverting Commits (git revert) - 1:04:46 Understanding Git Rebase - 1:09:06 Creating a Pull Request on GitHub - 1:12:36 Reviewing & Merging a PR - 1:15:56 Wrap Up & Final Thoughts 🎉 Thanks to our Champion and Sponsor supporters: 👾 Drake Milly 👾 Ulises Moralez 👾 Goddard Tan 👾 David MG 👾 Matthew Springman 👾 Claudio 👾 Oscar R. 👾 jedi-or-sith 👾 Nattira Maneerat 👾 Justin Hual -- Learn to code for free and get a developer job: https://www.freecodecamp.org Read hundreds of articles on programming: https://freecodecamp.org/news