Whether you’re creating an application or just a document as part of your next project, you should be using version control. It doesn’t matter if it will be just you, 1 other person, or 10 different people on the project, you should be using version control.

If you made it this far in this article, then you know, Git is a version control system, it keeps track of every change you make to within your project.

When you begin a project the first thing that should be on your mind is to initialize a git repository in the same directory as your project.

It is considered good practice to create separate branches to work on sections of a project, in the end you merge everything into the master branch.

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