Introduction to Git
With traditional hosting providers, the standard method for connecting to your server and uploading your files was to use File Transfer Protocol (FTP). You would connect using any standard FTP software and push a copy of your files to the server and those changes would be reflected instantly online when accessing your website URL. With cloud-based hosting providers, the standard typically is to use the Git source control. Git is a source control technology that allows you to track changes and history with your project source code as well as provide an easy-use means of collaboration with multiple developers. The most popular Git online code repository provider currently is www.GitHub.com.
For the purposes of this chapter, we ...
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