Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Git

Git is, by a significant margin, the most popular SCM in use at present. It is a distributed SCM system that keeps local branches of code bases and other content very inexpensively, while still providing the ability to push locally committed code into a shared central repository that multiple users can then access and work from. Above all else, it's capable of handling a lot of concurrent commit (or patch) activity—not surprising since it was written to accommodate the Linux kernel development team's efforts, where there might be hundreds of such patches/commits at a time. It's fast and efficient, and the commands for basic functionality that covers most day-to-day needs are fairly easily committed to memory, if using the command line ...