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Manage code through Git version control

Manage code through Git version control

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Manage code through Git version control

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- [Instructor] Once you start storing your web development files in multiple places, you'll have the problem of keeping them all synchronized. And as you'll soon discover it, it's a huge problem. Fortunately, there's Version Control Software or VCS. The most popular VCS is called Git; its homepage is git-scm.com. SCM stands for Source Code Management. Not only the individual web developers manage their projects and Git, but so do most open source projects out there. There's Bitcoin, Linux, even the VS code editor I've been using; all are open source projects manage through Git to enable thousands of people to contribute at once. Here's how it works: you start by building a website on your local computer; you decide to use Git so you create what's called a Git repository or repo, you then add all the files you've been working on. As you make further changes, you repeat the process adding new changes to the repo. Once…

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