What is Source Control?
Explore the concept of source control, why managing code changes is essential, and how traditional tools compare to Git. Understand Git's distributed approach that allows developers to work independently while maintaining full repositories, enabling efficient collaboration and version management.
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Source control
If you’re not familiar with source control, it solves a simple problem: how do you and your colleagues keep track of changes in your codebase?
You might start by:
- Sending each other updated files
- Emailing each other when files change
- Keeping tar files in a central location with version numbers
Tracking file changes
However, whenever the project scales in size, you encounter problems:
- If more developers are involved, then there is a communication overhead to track all the changes.
- If there are multiple projects running concurrently on the same codebase, then tracking all the changes will get