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Why use Git for system administration?

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Why use Git for system administration?

- [Instructor] We've talked about how version control systems work, so now let's discuss why we would use Git for system administration. As a system administrator, we can utilize version control to manage system configuration files. We can also manage any type of text files. This may be shell scripts you use to manage the operating system or even more advanced programming code, even if you're not a developer. Most files saved from Office suites, such as Word and Open Office, are now XML files made of text, so they can be managed using version control. These could even be the document files of your users. We can even use version control to manage any type of file, including binaries. This last one we need to discuss further. Git can store binary files, but there are some caveats to doing so. If a text file has changed, Git will store the changes depending on your workflow. If using Git garbage collection, it will only store the changed text itself. If a text file has changed, Git will…

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