From the course: Mastering Web Developer Interview Code

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Do you have experience using version control?

Do you have experience using version control?

From the course: Mastering Web Developer Interview Code

Do you have experience using version control?

- [Instructor] Version control allows you to manage changes to projects by saving the state of code at different times. Now, by far the most popular version control language is Git with roughly 70% of professionals saying they use it over other version control technologies. Now if you're going to apply for a job in tag you need to be comfortable with how it works. So let's go over the basics. Now you can think of version control as a time machine that lets you go back to predefined points in time, you create these safe points by creating something called commits that will let you come back and revisit those points in the future. Git also allows you to create branches that are similar to commits but you can create these to do bigger experiments with code. If you're into comic books, it's sort of like a multi-verse where you can go to a different universe and try out different things. Now commits are linear progressions…

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