Journal 48
July 8 - July 14 Prior to this course, I had worked in GitHub a few times before with my teammates. We have done a couple of projects in there, so I am vaguely familiar with the basic commands and usages. This class, however, is showing me a much more in depth view of Git, along with how valuable it can be for software development. After working through lab 5 with the two repositories, it showed me how multiple developers can work on the same project without constantly overwriting each other's changes and breaking the code. Each of the two developers made separate modifications, committed them independently, and then used Git to merge the code together. This showed how Git retains a complete history of changes and allows developers to work in parallel to make it easier to collaborate on large scale projects. If something does go wrong, Git has a function to review previous commits or even to restore an earlier version of the code to backtrack to when it was working. In contrast, ...