Version control is a crucial part of any sort of software development – whether it be school projects or high end software systems. It gives you a chance to back up your code to a repository or server, and relieves the worry of breaking your build without having anything to go back on.

The model of checking into a repository is especially useful when the development of the project is distributed – either across different machines (from laptop to desktop) or with multiple developers that all need access to the source code for development.

In the following guide, I outline an easy way to set up a lightweight version control system for personal use.…

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