git is a tool for managing programming projects. A programming project is a collection of related files and folders inside 1 main directory that is named after our project. When a programming project is using git, that project is said to be a repository. Sometimes people say the files are in git.
Using git allows us to do many things:
- We can easily share our code with others.
- We can easily collaborate with others on our project.
- Everyone can easily have the most recent files in our project.
- We can see a history of our project.
- We can recover old files or parts of files.
- We can work on the same files as others at the same time.