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This chapter provides a basic overview of Git, a source code control system adopted by the Drupal community during the creation of Drupal 7. 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 that 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 retrieve that snapshot at a later date to restore the previous state.
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Tomlinson, T. (2015). Using Git. In: Beginning Drupal 8. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6581-8_16
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