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What's GIT & GitHub Purpose

WARNING: Not a Guide on how to use GIT or GitHub.

  • The term version control might sound odd to you, but it does what exactly what the name said. Git Is free and open-source, and it's a type of version control system we as developers used to track changes and history, within our projects.

GIT -- (Version Control System)

  • Git is the Worldwide standard Version control system we use to track versions/history of the project directory.
  • Distributed version control system, mean that the local copy or clone of the project is it own complete version control system. These are a fully functional local repositories to make our life easy by allowing us to work remotely or offline.
  • This Whole process work like this: developers us commit code locally, then later we sync up our repository with the one on the server. This is different from a centralized version control system, where the client must be synchronized with the server before being able to create a new branch.
  • Just About Every development environment supports GIT, and the GIT Command Line Tools run in almost all the operating system.

More About GIT

GitHub

  • Basically is a place to host your code online, and allow for collaboration and version control.
  • GitHub allow you and many others peoples to work together and contribute to a project.
  • At it Core, data server and website that host our code on the cloud.

GitHub GIT CHEAT SHEET πŸ‘ˆ Click the link to get a copy of the PDF.

In Other Languages πŸ‘ˆ Cheat Sheet in many Languages.

  • NOTE: This is one of 30 blogs that I would be attempting to write over the next 30 days to improve my writing skills.

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