May 12, 2022

Make Your Life Easy with Git

In building a system there are lots of changes in the lines of code that we make. From development to release. There is a tool used to manage these changes in programming, namely Git.

Git is a version control system that developers use to co-develop software. The main function of git is to set the version of your source code by stating which line and code to add or replace.

Git makes it easier for developers to find out about changes to the source code instead of having to create new files such as Program.js, Program1.js, Program2.js, ProgramRelease.js. In addition, with git, we don't have to worry about the code we are working on clashing, because every developer can create a branch as their workspace. An equally cool feature, on git we can comment on the added / modified source code, this makes it easier for other developers to know what problems other developers are experiencing.

To find out how to use git, here are the basic git commands:

• Git init: to create a repository of local files which will have a .git folder
• Git status: to find out the status of the local repository
• Git add: adds a new file to the selected repository
• Git commit: to save changes made, but no changes made to the remote repository.
• Git push: for submitting committed changes to the remote repository.
• Git branch: view all branches in the repository
• Git checkout: swap the active branch with the selected branch
• GIt merge: to merge the active and selected branches
• Git clone: makes a local repository copy

You can use git online by using github, bitbucket, gitlab, azure devops and so on. As a developer, proficiency in git is a must-have, because there are many benefits that can be taken from git as a version control.