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Version control and repositories

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Version control and repositories

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- [Narrator] So you have all this code written, but where does the code go? And how do people collaborate on code? Imagine someone new takes over a code base or hundreds of people are working on one big code. How is it all managed? That's where version control and repositories come in. Version control allows you to manage and track changes to code and other file types. It preserves history of revisions and facilitates collaboration. That means you can switch between different versions. In programming, the common tool for this is called Git. Git is a version control system used for tracking changes in code files. As part of Git, you often hear of something called a Git repository. A repository or sometimes shorten into repo is a centralized storage where code and other file types are stored and managed. Repositories can have many collaboration settings. They can be individual or organizational. They can be local, meaning…

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