What is Git?
A step by step guide of git.
30 September, 2021
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What's git?
Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Also a Version Control System “VCS” allows you to👇.
- Revert the code files back to their previous state.
- Compare code changes over specific durations of time.
- Find who last modified a piece of code that might be causing an issue or a problem.
- Who introduced a particular issue and when and much more.
Why use Git?
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Performance: Git provides the best performance when it comes to version control systems. committing, branching, merging all are optimized for a better performance than other systems.
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Security: Git is designed specially to maintain the integrity of source code. it handles your security with the cryptographic method SHA-1. The algorithm manages your versions, files, and directory securely so that your work is not corrupted.
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Flexibility: A key design of the objective of git is the kind of flexibility it provides to support several kinds of nonlinear development workflows and its efficiency in handling both small scale and large scale projects as well as protocols. It is uniquely designed to support tagging and branching operations and store each and every activity carried out by the user as an integral part of change history. Not all VCSs support this feature.
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Distributed: Git is distributed in nature. Distributed means that the repository or the complete code base is mirrored onto the developer's system so that they can work on it only.
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Open source: As earlier mentioned that Git is an open-source project by having years of operational history. Companies that involves maintaining a project are possessed a long term vision and enough matured to meet long term urges of users. Being open-source invites developers from all over the world to contribute to the software and make it more and more powerful through features.
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Community: Git is very popular among open source projects. This means it’s a powerful and mostly used as well as the acceptable standard version of the controlling system with having a majority of the developer’s community.
we have understood that it is a more powerful and widely used VCSs. After understanding what and why it is better to understand how to use it
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