A Blog by Malathi Boggavarapu

Hi, I am Malathi Boggavarapu and welcome to my blog. This tutorial describes brief history of Version control systems, Advantages of DVCS which means Distributed Version Control Systems and also we will learn about Git and it's installation on Windows. I have a seperate post " Git Fundamentals " in my blog which explains everything about Git but i had broken them down to smaller sections to make it easy for everyone to follow. This post will only introduce you to Git. So let's get started. A brief history of version control First generation The very first version control system were developed in early 70's and operated on a single file and had no networking support.These were the systems such as SCCS and RCS. They are operated on a single file so that you will have a file such as foo.c and have multiple versions of that file. But there was no correspondence between different files within the repository. There was no notion that version 1.1 ...

Hi, I am Malathi Boggavarapu working at Volvo Group and i live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I have been working on Java since several years and had vast experience and knowledge across various technologies. This post gives you the introduction to the GIT version control system. A brief history of version control First generation The very first version control system were developed in early 70's and operated on a single file and had no networking support.These were the systems such as SCCS and RCS. They are operated on a single file so that you will have a file such as foo.c and have multiple versions of that file. But there was no correspondence between different files within the repository. There was no notion that version 1.1 of foo.c work with version 1.1 of bar.c. It could be arbitrary. So we only had single files. This lead to the innovation of having a multi file system or the second generation. Second Generation This is typified by centralized version co...