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Software version control

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Software version control

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- What's your experience with version control tools? - During the software development cycle, source code is constantly being changed. Either new features are being added or bugs are being fixed. Version control tools are used to track those changes, and by far, the most popular version control tool is Git. Git is free and open source and is easily set up on premises or as a service with providers like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab. To be a viable candidate, you really need to know how to be effective with Git, particularly from the command line. There are a few basic commands that you really need to know before your interview. Let's go over each of these at a high level. git init is used to create a new, empty repository on your workstation. You would use this as you are starting development on a project. git clone is used to clone an existing project. This command connects to a remote repository and pulls the source…

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