The Need For Version Control In Enterprise Applications

Version control systems allow developers to track and manage changes to software code. Example Mercurial, ClearCase, SVN, Git, etc. In this post, we’ll examine the inevitable need for version control in enterprise application architecture.

Version source control lets you-

1. Backup

2. Versioning/History

3. Undo changes

4. Compare code to various versions

5. Collaboration/Teamwork

6. Blame/Learning moment

7. Isolation of changes

8. Code review

Who needs a version control system?

• Software developers/Engineers/Programmers
• Web designer
• Graphic artist

Types of Version Control System-

1. Local Version Control System- The version control system in a local computer is called the local version control system. Example- RCS.

2. Centralized Version Control System- All the changes in the files are tracked in the centralized server. Example- Tortoise SVN.

3. Distributed Version Control System-

This approach removed the drawbacks of the centralized version control system that is if a centralized server dies developer can not save versioned changes and commits are also slow. In distributed VSC every user has a local copy of the repository and it will be the full mirror of the centralized repository that is on the distributed network and you require the internet when you need to commit your changes to the central repository. Example- Git, Mercurial Hg.

What Is Git?

1. It is a distributed version control system

2. It is very fast because most of the operations are local

3. It is open source/free

4. It has a large active community

Many IDE's already come with an integration of GIT.

How To Install/Configure Git?

1. Go to google chrome.

2. Search git for windows.

3. Click the link 'gitforwindows.org'.

4. Click on download.

5. Execute the git setup from the download directory and hit next, next.

How To Verify Git Installation?

1. Open cmd terminal and type

-git version

if the git version is displayed on the console means it is installed else it is not.

2. Close terminal

-exit

What Are The Ways To Use Git?

Command-line-

Git was specially designed for the command line, a graphical interface came later. New features instantly, implemented to the command line first then to a graphical interface.

GUI-

It provides the user a graphical interface for commits, amending existing commits, creating new branches, performing the merge, fetching, and pushing to a remote repository.

Difference Between Git and Github?

Git is a version source control system software and GitHub is a hosting service that lets you manage your repositories.

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