Setting Up for Version Control

To use version control in your work, you need a version control system. That is to say, you need a program that can save "versions" of what you have been working on.

There are many version control systems out there, but the one we are interested in here is called git. Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS). You can install git on your computer, and you can also use an online git hosting service such as GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket. For our purposes, we will be using both GitHub and git installed on your computer.