WhatisGitVersionControl?
Software Development Glossary & Terms
Git Version Control
Definition.
Git Version Control: Git is a distributed version control system for tracking changes in source code during software development.
In More Detail
Git's real value is not backup, it is the ability to answer 'when did this break and what changed'. A history of small, coherent commits makes that a two-minute bisect. A history of 'updates' and 'fixes' makes it archaeology.
On client projects this matters most at handover. Being able to point at the commit where a decision was made, and read why, is the difference between a codebase someone else can continue and one they will quietly rewrite.
In Practice
Every project I deliver comes with full Git history and a clean commit log — not a single "final version" zip file — so a client (or their next developer) can see exactly how and why the codebase evolved.
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