Version Control with Git

Daniel Wheeler

Why Version Control?

• Allows multiple people to work on one document
• No need to email things
• No need to invent names for tracking changes

About Version Control

• Not ad-hoc
• Nothing is ever lost
• Records who, why, when

Why Git?

• Word, Google Docs, Libre Office have inbuilt version control
• Git is universal for all documents, code, files
• Git is fast, powerful, elegant
• Collaborate - GitHub

Changes

Branch

Merge

Scenario

• Wolfman and Dracula
• Send planetary lander to mars
• Work on a plan together