Introduction to Version Control

Version control is a crucial requirement when developing software or automation inside your organization.  Version control manages changes to your content over a period of time.  It accomplishes this by retaining a history of changes, who made the changes, and ultimately why a change was made.  Version control also manages multiple workstreams taking place over time and provides tools for merging those separate streams into one another while still allowing for the identification of specific versions using human-readable labels.

This lab will walk you through a common version control workflow from creating a local repository to managing the upstream, to merge requests. By the end of this lab, you will have been exposed to many of the most common git command-line syntax options, including:

• git config
• git init
• git add
• git commit
• git diff
• git reset
• git branch
• git pull

• Jumpbox
• VS Code Server
• Gitea - A painless self-hosted Git service