Chapter 19. An introduction to source control with git

One sign of a professional toolmaker is their use of source control. Way back in the olden days of VBScript, we threw together ad hoc scripts, used them in production, and then forgot about them. But now that we’re in the world of automation and DevOps, properly maintaining our PowerShell projects is critical. For many organizations today, this task falls to git, a source control system first made popular on Linux (it was invented by Linux’s inventor, Linus Torvalds). We thought it would be helpful to provide a crash course on git fundamentals so that you can begin incorporating it into your work. As you might expect, this is a large topic, and you’ll need to devote some time to learning ...

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