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Summary

This page is the gateway to Git material: a series of lessons that takes you from installation, commit, branch, to collaboration on GitHub. Git is a version control system that records every code change so you can track the history of the project, restore lost work, and work with a team. This section also explains the difference between Git as a local tool and GitHub as a repository hosting service.

Key points

Git stores the project history in a hidden folder on each local copy
GitHub is a Git hosting repository for team collaboration
Basic usage: edit files, git add, git commit, then git
Materials include branching, merging, remote, and Git best practices

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