The Four Questions You Currently Ask Someone Else
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Git and GitHub for Product Managers
Module 1
Why a PM Should Understand This
The Four Questions You Currently Ask Someone Else
What Git Actually Solves
Git Versus GitHub
What This Course Covers
Module 2
The Mental Model
A Repository Is a Folder With a Memory
Commits: Save Points That Never Get Overwritten
Branches: Working on a Copy
Merging, and What a Conflict Really Is
Exercise 1: Learn Your Team's Layout
Module 3
Reading a Repository
The Repo Homepage
The README
Reading Activity
Finding the File You Want
Exercise 2: Read Your Own Repository
Module 4
Branches and Why Work Disappears
How Teams Organise Branches
'Done' and 'On Main' Are Different Claims
Long-Lived Branches Hurt
The Four States Work Can Be In
Exercise 3: Map Your Team's Flow
Module 5
Pull Requests: Your Main Surface
What a Pull Request Is
Reading a PR Without Reading Code
Checks, Reviews and Being Blocked
Commenting Usefully as a Non-Engineer
Exercise 4: Read Three Pull Requests
Module 6
Reading a Diff
Red, Green and the Numbers
Judging Scope in Thirty Seconds
Three Things a PM Should Always Look For
When Small Diffs Are Big Changes
Exercise 5: Read Real Diffs
Module 7
Issues, Labels and Tracking Work
How Issues Differ From Your Tracker
Writing an Issue Engineers Can Act On
Labels, Milestones and Projects
Keeping the Trail Intact
Exercise 6: Write and File a Real Issue
Module 8
Releases, Tags and Knowing What Shipped
Merged, Deployed, Released
Reading a Release
Version Numbers and What They Promise
Answering 'Is It Live?' Yourself
Exercise 7: Answer Your Own Release Questions
Module 9
Making Your Own Changes Safely
What a PM Can Safely Change
Editing a File in the Browser
Writing a PR Description That Helps
What Happens Next
Exercise 8: Open Your First Pull Request
Module 10
What Not to Touch
Five Things to Never Do
Why Rewriting History Upsets People
Secrets Are Hard to Remove
When to Ask Instead
Exercise 9: Establish Your Boundaries
Module 11
Final Project: Trace a Real Change End to End
Trace a Real Change End to End
Part 1 — Map Your Team's Setup
Part 2 — Follow One Feature All the Way
Part 3 — Ship Something Yourself
Module 12
Appendix: The Prompt Library
Getting Oriented
Reading Changes
Filing and Tracking Work
Making Changes
Words Explained
Lesson 1
The Four Questions You Currently Ask Someone Else
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