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Basic Git/GitHub Cheat Sheet
The Beginner's Guide to Version Control
If you aren’t already familiar with version control and incorporating it into your daily workflow, now is the time to get started. This is a barebones basic guide to get you started with Git and give you a solid foundation to develop further. Git is almost certainly used in any professional environment and the more you familiarize yourself with it early on the more valuable you will be to employers. Also, this will make your personal experience better by being able to switch computers without having to worry about saving your project on a flash drive. Working on groups projects will become so much easier to manage. Ever messed up your code so bad you felt like it would just be easier to start from scratch? With version control, you can just revert back to a stable version free from all of those crazy ideas you wanted to implement at 2 am.
Git and GitHub
Git is the actual version control system. It is an open source DVCS (distributed version control system) that runs in the command line. This basically means it saves the entire history of the project. The history of your project and the history of the same project that’s being worked on by your peers will all have copies. This is the opposite of SVN (subversion) where the entire history is stored in only one place.
