What is Git and Why is It So Important?

A comprehensive introduction to Git

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Towards Data Science
5 min readNov 25, 2020

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Linus Torvalds created the Linux operating system and he made it publicly available after a while. His initial purpose was to get comments and feedback about Linux from other people.

People started contributing to and getting involved with Linux. The contributions were not only in the form of code but also ideas…

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