What is Git and Why you Should Learn Git?
Well,
the IT industry is more focusing on Automation. IT companies are working on
different tools to make the processes like
1.
Continuous integration of features
2.
Deployment of app code to the server.
3.
Model & Provision the infrastructure.
4.
Testing application and generate reports etc.
Automated.
For the above processes, the IT industry is using different tools. Git is one
of them. Basically, Git is the version-controlling system which provides the
ability to track the changes of files. Version-controlling means different
versions of application or files like version 1, version 1.1. and so on.
So
you can manage different data sets and if you need the previous version of the
dataset, you can get it easily with the help of version-controlling system and
you can share your data with anyone.
IT
industry is using Git as Source code management system in the software
development process where developer shares his code or collaborate with his
team members and keeps the files up to date.
Now
the questions are where does that data store? How developer keeps it up to
date? And How he will share the code files with other team members?
There
is the only one solution of the above questions: Github. GitHub is a web-based
distributed version-control platform where users/developers/testers can collaborate
on or adopt open source code projects, share ideas and much more. Github allows
users to create a remote repository to keep updated files & provide simple
URL to share codes with his team.
What things we can perform through Git?
1.
We can create local and remote repository through Git.
2.
We can create different branches under the remote repository and we can merge
branches with other branches easily when needed. When we start working on
something or changing something- no matter how big or small—we create a new
branch.
3.
We can add the source code to the local repository & once we are done with
the work, we deploy that code files to
the remote repository.
4.
When we start the work, at that time we can pull code files from remote to
local to ensure accuracy and consistency of modules.
5.
You can update files and deploy to the remote repository.
6.
You can access all versions of all files in the Git repository at any time,
it’s almost impossible to lose any part of a code.
7.
Our teammates can work on one project at the same time without interfering with
each other, and without fear of losing any changes made by a colleague. In Git,
There is no limitation for Collaborative work.
Another question is how is it helpful in
automation?
As
we have discussed, the IT industry is using Git to manage versions of source
code & make the apps accurate and consistent by keeping the updated codes
on the repository. So at the time
of deployment or automation testing, we pull the code from Github and
perform the operations through different tools for different processes. In case
of deployment, if we are using Jenkins, we create the job and provide the
remote repository git, after that Jenkins will take care of everything.
So
in the automation process, we just need to provide the Git repository and tools
will take care of everything, they will fetch the code from Github and perform
the operations.
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