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.NET Core Web API 36 Angular 31 JavaScript Basics 19 JavaScript Intermediate 18 JavaScript Advanced 16 TypeScript Basics 14 TypeScript Intermediate 14 TypeScript Advanced 12 Entity Framework Core 28 Dapper 16 Git & GitHub 29 Web Security (OWASP Top 10) 21 LLM Fundamentals 20 C# Fundamentals 20 Object-Oriented Programming in C# 16 C# Collections and Generics 11 LINQ 17 Asynchronous Programming in C# 17 Advanced C# 14 C# Versions 6

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DevOps PART 26

Git 2.23–2.39: From checkout to switch and restore, Old Habits to New Ones

We put old and new side by side for what arrived between Git 2.23 and 2.39: the move from checkout to switch and restore, init.defaultBranch, pull's divergent branches error, sparse-checkout, maintenance, fsmonitor, ort and remerge-diff, rebase --update-refs, force-if-includes, safe.directory and SSH signing.

6 Nov 2026 11 min 11

DevOps PART 08

Git Branch: A Movable Pointer, HEAD and git switch

We see with real output that a branch is a 41-byte file holding a single commit hash, how HEAD works, listing, renaming and deleting with git branch, moving around with git switch and switch -c, getting into and out of detached HEAD, and the old use of git checkout.

6 Nov 2026 9 min 8