Version Control: Mastering Git and Beyond
Version Control: Mastering Git and Beyond Version control helps teams track changes, compare history, and recover from mistakes. Git is the most popular tool for this job, but the concepts work across many systems. This guide covers practical basics and friendly tips you can use today. At its core, Git stores snapshots in a local repository. You work with three areas: the working tree, the staging area, and the repository. Basic commands are simple: git init to start, git status to see changes, git add to stage, and git commit to save a snapshot. You can view history with git log and inspect changes with git diff. ...