Version Control

• Allows you to revisit various verisons of a file or set of files
  • Can revert a file
  • track modification
  • modify indivduals
  • compare changes
• Allowed for programmers to have more knowledge on team members' activity
• If CVS (centralized version control) goes down then people couldn't work together

What is Git?

• Snapshots
  • DVCS (Distributed Version Control) that stores data in a file system made of snapshots
• Local Operations
  • Relies mainly on local operations because most necesarry information can be found in local resources
  • Allows for work to be done even if not online or on a VPN
• Tracking changes
  • All changes are tracked by Git
• States
  • Files reside in three main states
    • Committed-Data is securely stored in local databases
    • Modified-file has been changed but not committed to the database
    • Staged-Flagged a file's changed version to be committed in the next snapshot
• Git traces its roots to the open sourve software project Linux kernel