GIT BLOG

Here’s what you will learn in this blog

1. What is Version Control?
2. Benefits of Version Control?
3. What is Git?
4. Benefits of Git

What is Version Control?

Version Control, also known as source control keeps tracking and managing the files and repositories. It helps the programmer to take snapshots of the project as versions over a period of time.

Version Control software keeps track of every modification to the code in a special kind of database. If any mistakes happen in the project, the programmers can turn back to the earlier version and help to fix the bugs while minimizing disruption to all team members. Version Control solves these types of problems by tracking every individual change by each contributor and helping to prevent the concurrent workflow from conflicts.

It also helps developers to move faster and allows software teams to preserve efficiency and agility as the team scales to include more software developers.

Benefits of Version Control

1. Giving long-term change history — As said earlier, every individual changes over the years will keep for future reference.
2. Branching & Merging — A large number of members in a team concurrently working to build the software and they are working with independent features of the system and using a single branch leads to ambiguity in the system. The version Control System(VCS) tool keeps multiple streams(branches) of work independent from each other while also providing the facility of merging that features.
3. Traceability — To trace each change made to the software and connect it to project management and ensures bug-free while coding.

Version Control System(VCS) have made a great improvement over the past few years. One of the most popular VCS tools today is Git.

What is Git?

Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to large projects with speed and efficiency. The git directory holds all the meta information and database of our project. It supports non-linear development through its thousands of parallel branches.

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Git workflow divides into three states,

1. Working Directory —Modify files in your Working Directory.
2. Staging Area(Index) — Stage the files and add a snapshot of them into the staging area.
3. Git Repository — Perform a commit that stores the snapshots permanently in your git directory. Checkout any existing version, make changes, stage them, and commit

Branch in Git

A branch in git is used to keep your changes until they are ready. We can do the features of the system in the different branches while the main(master) branch remains stable. After completing your work, you can merge it with the main branch.

Commands in Git

Create Repositories — git init

Make Changes — git add, git commit, git status

Parallel Development — git branch, git merge, git rebase

Sync Repositories — git push, git pull, git add origin

Benefits of Git

Performance — Git is a strong and reliable platform in comparison with other versions of the control system.

Security — The primary purpose of git is to ensure the integrity of the code. All changes made by the developer are cryptographically secured with SHA1 algorithm.

Flexibility — It supports different types of non-linear workflow development and is efficient in handling small and large projects and protocols.

Wide Acceptance — Compares to other VCS, git is a highly acceptable controlling system and ensures high performance and adaptability to perform different actions.

Quality open source project — It ensures the Quality of open source projects and maintains it to the long-term vision.