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Every developer talks about Git. But if you're just starting out, it can feel overwhelming. Let me break it down simply. What is Git? Git is a tool that tracks changes to your code over time. Think of it like a save system in a video game. Every time you hit save, Git remembers exactly what your code looked like at that moment. If you break something later, you can go back to any previous save. W…

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Hey! Let me ask you something. You are working on a project. You have been coding for 3 days straight. Everything is going well. Then you make a change. Something breaks. You try to fix it. Now something else breaks. You think — "I just want to go back to how it was yesterday." But you cannot. Because you kept saving over the same file. The old version is gone. Sound familiar? That is the exact p…

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