the.com/version control
a time machine for your files, minus the paradoxes and murder.
means a system that tracks every change to a set of files so you can undo, compare, or merge them without losing your mind.
from born from 1970s mainframe programmers tired of overwriting each other's work, formalized by systems like SCCS and RCS, then perfected by git in 2005 after linus torvalds got fed up with existing tools during linux kernel development.
git originlinus torvalds built it in ten days
branch meaninga parallel timeline that can merge back
commit etymologyborrowed from database transaction terminology
merge conflicttwo people editing the same timeline