Chapter 1 Version Control the Git Way
A version control system (VCS) is a methodology or tool that helps you keep track of changes you make to the files in your project. In its simplest, manual form, a VCS is you creating a copy of the file you’re working with and adding the date and time to the end of it.
Being pragmatic, we want something that will help automate that process. This is where VCS tools come in. They track all the changes for us, keeping a copy of every change made to the code in our projects.
Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) are no different in that respect. Their main goal is still to help us track changes we make to the projects we’re working on. The difference between VCSs and DVCSs is how developers communicate ...
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