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Beginning Git and Github for Linux Users

The Git distributed revision control system is a sweet step up from Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, and all those others we’ve tried and made do with. It’s great for distributed development, when you have multiple contributors working on the same project, and it is excellent for safely trying out all kinds of crazy changes. We’re going to use a free Github account for practice so we can jump right in and start doing stuff.

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