Introduction to Git

Ansible changes the way you work. It helps shift from a world of manually executed tasks to automated and codified tasks. To do this you will incrementally build playbooks and will need to track changes in the files. You need source control for that.

Source control

Long gone are the days when you used shell histories and shared files to store your code. Source control lets you collaborate to store and audit your code.

Source control is a broad topic. Entire courses are dedicated to it. The good news is that you don’t need to understand the cavernous depths of source control. You just need enough information to become competent.

What is Git?

Git is a distributed source control system that:

• enables you to work locally and independently.
• supports collaboration,

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