This is probably gonna make some people here jump out of the window, but would someone care to explain Git to me ?
Am a web dev student btw

One word: Google

git, another example of Linus' "fuck that, I'll do it myself" 😛

What is Google ? No jokes, I wanted to get an explanation from the people here first hand other than a rich card from Google @samfreeman05

can't be done well in under 1000 characters

It's a cloud compatible version control and backup system for code projects. So you dont have to have the folders "project" "project new", "project final", "project reallyfinal" and store them on your dropbox or smth and send them back and forth between your team members. Also it's super helpfull when working alone as well, because you keep track of your work and your fixes and features.

Thanks for the answer ! I'll definitely check it out :) @disolved

@max-dng there is an excellent talk by linus to google guys about git. https://youtu.be/4XpnKHJAok8
enjoy.

Thanks ! I'll make sure to watch it @magicMirror

@max-dng http://ohshitgit.com

Git is one implementation of Version Control Software (VCS). Other examples include SVN, CVS, Mercurial, TFS and SourceSafe. It's a way of controlling development code and providing backups. It's designed to make coding anything easier, safer, more fault tolerant and more manageable than just editing files in a folder on some dude's machine somewhere.

From one webdev student to another...It's an awesome quick way to make a copy of your entire code including dependencies if wanted so you can experiment instead of fucking up the original. Also you can 'upload' a large file in a few commands to a remote repo in seconds instead of minutes. This is 'just the tip' of it's features. Spent a whole weekend learning the basics and I was way ahead of my classmates.

Download it today if they are teaching you this is school learn it on your own especially if you are working with any type of framework.