IV. Using Git
One of the biggest headaches that developers must deal with is different versions of source code. Sometimes you just need to “go back” to a previous version of code. Maintaining these versions manually can be cumbersome and time consuming.
Compounding the problem is when multiple programmers work together on a single piece of source code. A large program can be tens of thousands of lines of code with different programmers responsible for different portions of the code.
Version control software like Git can handle the complicated task of maintaining different versions of source code.
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