Sharing Code, Merging, and Branching with Git
Explore how Git enables code sharing through pushing and pulling commits between repositories. Understand Git’s branching and merging processes, how merge conflicts are handled, and how these practices support collaborative development and continuous integration pipelines.
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Sharing code with Git
Whereas centralized SCM systems have a central server, Git repositories can send and receive commits between each other. Git repositories always include all the files and metadata of all other repositories with the same content. The process of sending commits, called a push, and receiving, called a pull, makes no distinction between a local and central repository.
Git does, however, have a concept of an authoritative repository. Authoritative repositories are considered the ...