What is Version Control?
▪ Also known as "source control"
▪ Practice of tracking and managing changes to software code
▪ It enables multiple people to work on a single project simultaneously
▪ Code is hosted centrally on the internet
▪ Every developer has an entire copy of the code locally
Basic Concepts of Version Control
▪ Version Control keeps a history of changes
Every code change and file is tracked!
▪ Git knows how to merge changes automatically.
● Merge conflicts - when the same line was changed. (Git cant fix it alone and must be solved manually)
Best Practice : push and pull often from the remote repo to stay in sync.
This is called Continous Integration(CI) - integrating code changes frequently.
▪ Breaking changes don't affect you pull the new code
● Version control keeps the history of changes
● You can revert commits.
● Each change is labeled with a commit message.
