What is this programme?
The Git & Version Control Certificate from ecertificate.pro is a self-paced online course covering branching strategy, merge conflict resolution, code review workflow, safe undo and recovery, and release tagging. It takes about 16 hours and is aimed at developers, QA engineers, data engineers and DevOps practitioners who already use Git daily but want a deliberate workflow instead of memorized commands. The work happens in a real repository: you create branches, produce and resolve conflicts on purpose, rewrite local history with interactive rebase, recover deleted commits from the reflog, and cut a tagged release. The certificate is issued by ecertificate.pro as an independent training provider; it is not government approved, not accredited by any official body, and it does not grant a license, a protected title, or a guarantee of employment. Each certificate carries a unique verification code that is checked only in the ecertificate.pro database, and it is not registered with any third-party institution.
Who it is for
Software developers, QA and test automation engineers, data and analytics engineers, DevOps and platform staff, plus technical writers or designers who commit to shared repositories. Also suitable for team leads who need to define a branching and review policy for a small team.
What you will be able to do
- Pick a branching model - trunk-based, short-lived feature branches, or release plus maintenance branches - and write it up as a policy with naming, lifetime and merge rules.
- Resolve same-line, rename-versus-edit and delete-versus-modify conflicts, and configure .gitattributes merge drivers for lockfiles and generated files.
- Rewrite local history with interactive rebase - reorder, squash, split, reword - and publish it safely using git push --force-with-lease.
- Author small, reviewable changes with commit messages that explain intent, and run a review pass using CODEOWNERS, protected branches and required status checks.
- Choose correctly among git restore, reset, revert, stash and clean, and recover deleted branches or dropped commits from the reflog.
- Locate the commit that introduced a regression with git bisect run driven by a test script.
- Cut a release with annotated or signed tags, semantic version numbers, a generated changelog, and a hotfix cherry-picked forward from an older release branch.
Modules
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1
How Git Stores Work: Commits, Refs and the Three Trees
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2
Choosing a Branching Strategy
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3
Integrating Work: Merge, Rebase, Squash and Fast-Forward
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4
Resolving Merge Conflicts Without Losing Work
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5
Code Review That Ships
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6
Undoing Safely: restore, reset, revert, stash
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7
Investigating History: log, blame, bisect
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8
Tagging, Versioning and Cutting a Release
How it works
Learning format
Self-paced written material, downloaded from your dashboard. No fixed schedule and no live sessions — you work through it when it suits you.
Material delivery
Everything appears in your dashboard as soon as your payment is confirmed. Files are served only to your signed-in session.
Prerequisites
Comfort with a terminal (cd, ls, editing a file) and having made at least a few commits before. No specific programming language is required. You need Git installed locally and a free account on any hosting service for the review exercises.
Completion
You work through the eight modules at your own pace and finish with a scenario-based final assessment plus a repository exercise covering branch, conflict, rebase and tag. When you pass, the certificate appears in your private ecertificate.pro panel with a unique verification code; it is not sent as an email attachment.
Your certificate
Once your completion is confirmed, we prepare your certificate and upload it to your dashboard, normally within 24–48 hours. You receive an e-mail as soon as it is there — you never have to chase it.
Refunds
Because the material is delivered digitally and immediately, purchases are non-refundable once the files have been made available to your account. The full terms are in our Refund Policy.
