VCS

Working with GitLab Merge Requests

Contribute code to someone else's GitHub project with a pull request

Making and committing our changes

How to create a pull request on GitHub

Forking and cloning the project

Contributing to open source software

Review and hopefully get your pull request merged

Contributing to open source software Summary

Let the IDE help in the tricky business of resolving merge conflicts.

Use git's stash to move uncommitted work aside temporarily.

Move uncommitted work aside when you need to work on another branch.

Get your feature branch caught up with changes on the main branch.

See the changes in another branch's commits.

See what's happening on that other branch.

Clone a project from the IntelliJ IDEA welcome screen

Review the changes in main before bringing them to your branch.

Quickly spot which parts of your file have changed since the last commit.

Unselect files or changed regions within files during the commit process.

Put some missing work back into your last commit, before you push.

5 Git Tricks you need to know

Use the IDE's built-in history facility to recover changes when VCS can't help you.

Undo a commit...without misery.

Edit the wording in your last commit message, after you committed.

How to clean up your Git commit history with Git interactive rebase

Using interactive rebase in IntelliJ IDEA

There are various tips and tricks you can use to navigate a long class in IntelliJ IDEA

Group and commit changes related to certain tasks

How you can create an IntelliJ IDEA project from your code in GitHub

How you can share a local project to GitHub

Use VCS options in IntelliJ IDEA to resolve merge conflicts visually in the editor

Commit your changes to VCS

Fully customise the checks you must perform before you commit your changes to version control

Git Staging is an alternative approach to IntelliJ IDEA Changelists

View your git commits in the Search Everywhere dialog