Terms of Use

These terms govern your use of moderngitacademy.com.

Not legal advice

This page sets out sensible terms for an educational website. It is not legal advice and has not been reviewed by a lawyer. Anyone operating this site commercially should have these terms reviewed against their jurisdiction and circumstances before relying on them.

Acceptance

By using this site you agree to these terms. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the site.

What this site is

Modern Git Academy publishes free educational material about Git, GitHub, CI/CD, security, DevOps and related software engineering topics.

It is a reference and teaching resource. It is not a certification programme, not a training course with an accreditation, and not a substitute for professional advice about your specific systems.

There is no account system, no enrolment, no fee and no subscription.

Educational use of content

Written content on this site is published for you to read, learn from and refer back to. You may:

• Read, print and save pages for your own reference.
• Quote short passages with attribution and a link to the original page.
• Link to any page freely.

Please do not republish articles in full, present this material as your own work, or use it to train a service that reproduces it substantially verbatim.

Code examples

The commands and code samples in these lessons are provided so you can run them and learn from them. You may use them freely in your own work, including commercially, without attribution.

Run commands on repositories you can afford to lose

Some Git operations modify or delete files, and some can discard uncommitted work permanently. Lessons flag these explicitly and offer safer alternatives where they exist, but you are responsible for what you run on your own systems.

Practise in a disposable repository created for the purpose, as the exercises instruct. Do not run unfamiliar commands against a repository containing work you have not backed up.

No warranty

The content on this site is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind.

Considerable effort goes into accuracy: commands are verified against a real Git installation, platform-specific instructions follow primary vendor documentation, and version-sensitive material is marked with what it was checked against. Even so:

• Software changes. A command accurate today may behave differently in a future release.
• Environments differ. Your operating system, shell, Git version and configuration may not match those used for verification.
• Errors are possible. If you find one, please report it — corrections are made directly to the affected lesson.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the operator of this site is not liable for any loss or damage arising from your use of the site or reliance on its content — including lost data, lost work, lost profits or business interruption.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Third-party names and trademarks

Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft, Windows, Apple, macOS, Ubuntu, Homebrew and other product names referred to on this site are the property of their respective owners.

They are used descriptively, to identify and teach about those products. Modern Git Academy is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them. Git itself is free software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 2; this site is an independent educational resource that teaches its use.

External links

Lessons link to external documentation and resources. Those sites are outside this site’s control, and linking to them is not an endorsement of their content, accuracy or practices.

Availability

The site is provided on a best-effort basis. There is no uptime guarantee, and pages may be changed, moved or removed at any time. Content is corrected and updated as software changes — the version you read today may differ from the version you read next year, which is intentional for version-sensitive material.

Paid products

The Academy sells digital products — template and checklist bundles — alongside the free curriculum. Buying one does not change your rights over the free content, and nothing that is free is moved behind a purchase.

Licence. Each product page states its licence. Both current products — the Professional Toolkit and the GitHub Actions Production Workflow Vault — are licensed to one engineer for use and modification in unlimited personal and employer repositories. Neither may be redistributed or resold, and a download link may not be shared. There is no team, seat-based or organisation licence; several engineers wanting their own copy means several purchases.

Delivery. Products are digital. Payment is taken by Stripe; when it completes you are sent straight to a download page, which you should bookmark — it keeps working for later updates and is not single-use or device-bound. Stripe emails your receipt separately, and that receipt is your proof of purchase. If the download page does not open, order help explains how to get back to it and how to reach support.

Updates. Updates to a product you have bought are included, published to the same download page, at no further charge.

Support and refunds. Order help is the route for downloads, receipts, updates and refund requests.

Refunds

Full refund within 14 days of purchase, on request — reply to your Stripe receipt or use the contact page with your support reference. No questions asked; the files are yours to delete.

Changes to these terms

These terms may be updated. Continued use of the site after a change constitutes acceptance of the revised terms.

Who operates this site

For legal notices, or to request operator details not shown above, use the contact page.

No corporate registration, trademark or accreditation is claimed by this site beyond what is stated above, and none should be inferred from these terms.