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Formal Definition Git is a free, open-source distributed version control system (VCS) designed to track changes in source code during software development. In English A tool that can save the state of our project,from adding a semicolon to a file, to writing hundreds of lines of code. Whenever we think this should be saved, we can! And whenever we need to see that version, we can! Whenever we need to use that version or do changes to it and save again, we can! We can save n number of versions...

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