If you're just beginning programming, you've likely encountered the name "Git"—but what is it? And why do you need it? Git is the most important tool I use, next to my text editor, operating system, ...

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When developers perform distributed version control with Git, they should no longer think of the development workspace as simply a collection of files and folders stored on the file system. Git ...