Git for Software Version Control

Version control with Git is one of the most common practices among software development teams today.

Git is a version control system that handles the versioning of files, keeping track of all modifications made to them.

In this way, we can maintain a file history with the changes made, along with the date, time, and authors of those changes.

However, beyond these features, the most important aspect of Git is that it enables and facilitates teamwork.

To use Git, you need both a server-side and a client-side component.

Some of the most prominent servers like Bitbucket or GitHub use Git for file versioning.

As for the client-side, this refers to the programmers, who typically clone a repository hosted on a server to their personal computer, make necessary modifications, and then integrate them back into the repository.

Specifically, what a programmer does is: clone the repository, set up the environment, develop the necessary modifications, commit the changes, and then push them to the repository.

It’s worth noting that there are various branch management strategies within the repository.

For example, in addition to the master branch, you might have a dev branch for development, a test branch for testing in the test environment, a prod branch for production, and personal branches for each programmer like dev-nicolas.

Another example is having branches based on tickets or tasks instead of personal branches per programmer.

Subsequently, an implementer is responsible for merging the corresponding branches, such as personal branches or ticket branches with the dev branch, and then merging the dev branch with the test branch or prod branch.

With a test environment in place, the test branch is deployed to conduct the necessary tests before updating and deploying the prod branch to the production environment.

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