Introduction Guide to Git for Beginners

Learn What, Why & How to use version control system Git

Introduction

In this article, we will learn about What is a Git, Why do we need that in realistic scenarios and basics of how to work with it. Anyone can learn Git it’s not a language to keep more effort into learning. Anyone a student or storekeeper or a designer and any person who has access to computer systems and knows how to operate it can use this. Its benefits are not only limited to Software Developers however; anyone can use this version control system.

Every one of us at some point in time would have created files to write something about expenses or personal bio or something else. So let’s take a basic example of creating, writing, updating and saving a file on a computer system or say a mobile phone. Think of it as not a one-time job so we frequently keep updating the content written on the file. At some time we over-write the content or replace the previously added content depending on our mood or define it as our requirement. So what happens at some point in time in the future is if you want to check the content what have you written at the start point or some time in the middle, Can you check the changes? No, right. That was one of the main points of this version control.