The bottom line is this: modern software development may take many "forms", but it usually boils down to [http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ this]. Git enables such a branched workflow. That is why distributed version control in general, and git in particular, is the most widely adopted version control system for software development <ref>https://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/eclipse-community-survey-2014-results/</ref>
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== Intro to Git ==
git config --global diff.tool meld
git config --global --add color.ui true
# store password in memory for an hour
git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'
# recent packaged versions of git might be 1.8.3.1 (CentOS 7.4) whereas the current available is 2.15.1
# push.default is unset; its implicit value is changing in