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Learn about Git and its version control process

Learn about Git and its version control process

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Learn about Git and its version control process

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- [Instructor] Git is a very popular open source version control system, widely used for both public and private projects. In fact, the source core for both the Linux kernel and Python are both using Git as their version control system, so let's talk about Git and its features. There are many open source and commercial version control systems. The open source ones include CVS SVN, Git, and Mercurial to name a few. As mentioned, Git is one of the most popular, if not the most popular, version control system in use today. Git was created by Linus Torvalds for the development of the Linux kernel in 2005. Because of this heritage and its original purpose, Git has the following focuses right from the beginning. It supports parallel, independent, and simultaneous development of code with repositories offline. Git can scale to handle thousands of developers. Git is fast and efficient by using features, such as compression and…

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