Introduction

Welcome to your first lesson on version control. In this lesson, you’ll begin to explore version control and highlight its role in software development. After a general overview, you’ll start to learn about the most popular version control system for mobile development: Git. Then, you’ll get to see how Git can interact with a small project.

By the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

• Define version control and explain its importance.
• Identify the different types of version control systems.
• Understand the basics of the Git version control system.