Git and Version Control.

Version Control System

When we work in collaboration, there are always changes in the code made by multiple developers. Also, projects in companies have a large code that could be more than thousands of lines of code. For the maintainer of the project, It is very difficult to manage the code and keep track of changes in the files. Hence, in order to manage and track changes in a file, we use Version Control System (VCS).

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A Version Control System is software that helps to track changes in a file or directory. It stores the history of all the changes or versions that have been created in a project. It can also roll back to any of the previous savepoints of a file. Git is the most famous and widely used version control system by developers around the globe. Some of the other Version Control Systems are Gitlab, Apache Subversion (SVN), and Monotone.

This blog is divided into two parts: In the first part, we will discuss about the following topics of Git:

• Introduction to Git.
• Installation of Git.
• Basic Git commands.

Introduction to Git.

Git is a widely used version control system used by developers. Git is an open-source distributed software…