Software Engineering for Absolute Beginners: Your Guide to Creating Software Products

© Nico Loubser 2021

N. LoubserSoftware Engineering for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6622-9_3

3. Repositories and Git

Nico Loubser¹  

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London, UK

 

You cannot build great code using Docker alone. You still need a convenient way to distribute your code, to revision control it, and to source control it. Years ago, in less technologically inclined working environments, you would FTP your code to your server. When you needed to make changes to the code, you made backup copies of it yourself. Two software developers could not work on the same script independently, because of the very real danger that they would overwrite each other’s work when they copied the same script to the same server. The same went for working independently ...