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Todd Tomlinson, Beginning Backdrop CMS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-1970-6_16

16. Using Git

Todd Tomlinson

(1)Tigard, Oregon, USA

This chapter provides a basic overview of Git, a source code control system adopted by the Backdrop community. What is a source code control system, you ask? It is any tool that enables developers to manage changes to documents, source code, and other collections of information. If you have ever made changes to a document or a piece of code and then subsequently wished you could go back in time and undo those changes, a source code control system would have saved the day. That’s one of the key features of source code control: the ability to take a snapshot of digital assets at a given point in time and then ...

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