about_git
First a few words in general about what git actually is and what it can do. I see two main purposes of it:
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The very first purpose is version control of a project. This can be a piece of software or a written document, for example. As a developer or author you might want to keep track of your progress. Maybe you want to go back to earlier versions, because you somehow messed it up, or just because you liked it better. This ensures a continuous improvement of your project.
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The second purpose is collaboration. Git allows you to share the whole project with others. It does track, who was doing changes on the project's files and is able to merge things together if the collaborators were working on different parts of the projects.
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If you think about it, this is also exactly the thing you need if you are working from different computers, e.g. from work and from home. So we can add synchronisation to that list.
git also helps with building up an organisational structure for complex software development. It is easy to work on different parts of the project at the same time and merge those so-called branches together afterwards.
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