Version control is one of the fundamental tools for programmers in the modern world. It helps us with almost every aspect of a project, in one way or another. There are many version control systems and each of them is a topic in itself, so we're going to narrow our focus here and talk about how to do a few particularly useful things, using a specific version control system called Git.
Using version control
Initializing Git
The first thing we need to do to use Git, after installing it of course, is to set up a folder as our Git repository. This only takes a couple of commands on the command line, as shown here:
After that, we move to the folders where we want the repository to be, that is, git init and git add. Once we...
