Workbook title polish

Author: Matthew McCullough

workbooks/github-advanced.md

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
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 layout: workbook
-title: GitHub Advanced Workbook • Mastering all of Git and GitHub
-description: A student and teacher outline to the GitHub Advanced class.
+title: GitHub Advanced Workbook
+description: This student and teacher workbook will be your companion to the GitHub Advanced class taught by the [GitHub Training Team](http://training.github.com/) and other educational groups. In this course, you'll learn how to leverage all of the shortcuts, commands and advanced workflows of both Git and GitHub.
+
 ---
 
 
@@ -443,3 +444,10 @@ ssh -T [email protected]
 git gui
 gitk
 ```
+
+## Widely used GUIs
+
+### Summary
+* <a href="http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis" class="weblink">Listing of GUIs</a>
+* <a href="http://eclipse.github.com" class="weblink">eGit for Eclipse</a>
+* <a href="http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/" class="weblink">SmartGit for Windows, Mac, Linux</a>

workbooks/github-foundations-old.md

@@ -1,10 +1,3 @@
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-layout: workbook
-title: Foundations Workbook
-description: This workbook will be your companion for the slides of the GitHub Foundations class taught by the [GitHub Training Team](http://training.github.com/) and other educational groups. In this GitHub Training course, you'll learn all the necessary skills to be productive with GitHub and Git in your open source work or daily job assignments.
----
-
-
 ##  A Brief Tour of Git <a href="http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Git-Basics" class="booklink">Pro Git Book: Git Basics</a>
 
 Git has a unique twist on version control in which each _cloned_ copy of the repository contains all branches, tags, and commits ever saved to the project. This provides local-disk speed for almost any operation. Network operations are performed in batch and compressed before sending, thus making over-the-wire operations seem incredibly fast.
@@ -253,20 +246,6 @@ TBD
 * Similarity index
 * Following history
 
-## Ignore
-TBD
-
-* Basic setup
-* Standard patterns
-* Global configuration
-
-
-## Checkout
-TBD
-
-* Switching branches
-* Discarding changes
-* Exploring History
 
 ## Merge
 TBD
@@ -279,19 +258,3 @@ TBD
 
 * Merge preparation
 * Interactive
-
-## Reset
-TBD
-
-* Hard
-* Mixed
-* Soft
-
-## Revert
-TBD
-
-## GUIs
-TBD
-
-## Reflog
-TBD

workbooks/github-foundations.md

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 ---
 layout: workbook
-title: GitHub Foundations Workbook • An introduction to the GitHub collaboration platform
-description: This workbook will be your companion for the slides of the GitHub Foundations class taught by the [GitHub Training Team](http://training.github.com/) and other educational groups. In this GitHub Training course, you'll learn all the necessary skills to be productive with GitHub and Git in your open source work or daily job assignments.
+title: GitHub Foundations Workbook
+description: This student and teacher workbook will be your companion to the GitHub Foundations class taught by the [GitHub Training Team](http://training.github.com/) and other educational groups. In this course, you'll learn basic collaboration skills towards a productive use of Git and GitHub in your open source work and daily job assignments.
+
+
 ---
 
 ## Version control concepts

workbooks/github-intermediate.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 layout: workbook
-title: GitHub Intermediate Workbook • Leveraging Git and GitHub from the command line
-description: A student and teacher outline to the GitHub Advanced class.
+title: GitHub Intermediate Workbook
+description: This student and teacher workbook will be your companion to the GitHub Intermediate class taught by the [GitHub Training Team](http://training.github.com/) and other educational groups. In this course, you'll learn how to extensively leverage Git and GitHub from the command line.
 ---
 
 
@@ -132,9 +132,10 @@ git branch --no-merged
 ### Summary
 * `Checkout` as a multi-use command
 * Changing branches
-* Exploring detached `HEAD`s
+* Exploring history (detached`HEAD`)
 * Discarding dirty working tree paths
 
+
 #### Details
 ```
 git checkout [branch]
@@ -240,7 +241,7 @@ git log --stat -M
 git log --follow <file>
 ```
 
-## Undoing commits
+## Undoing commits with `revert` and `reset`
 
 ### Summary
 * Generating commit to restore past patch set
@@ -253,6 +254,7 @@ git log --follow <file>
 #### Details
 ```shell
 git revert <REF>
+
 git reset --hard
 git reset --mixed
 git reset --soft
@@ -261,15 +263,24 @@ git reset --soft
 ## Ignoring temporary files
 
 ### Summary
-* Creating a .gitignore
-* Adding patterns
-* Within _sub directories_
-* Negation of ignore pattern
-* Global/external ignore
+* Create a `.gitignore` file
+* Add ignore patterns to the file
+* `.gitignore` files can also live in _subdirectories_
+* `!` is a negation of ignore pattern
+* Global ignore with `core.excludesfile` configuration
 
 #### Details
 ```
-git config --global core.excludesfile
+touch .gitignore
+echo '*.log' >> .gitignore
+git add .gitignore
+git commit -m "Ignoring log files"
+```
+
+Global ignore file configuration:
+
+```
+git config --global core.excludesfile <filepathandname>
 ```
 
 ## Stashing in-progress changes
@@ -286,7 +297,7 @@ git pop
 git stash --include-untracked
 ```
 
-## Recovering almost anything
+## Recovering almost anything with the `reflog`
 
 ### Summary
 * Tracing Git action "history"