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Why I Started Using GitHub and How I Work with Git

I’ve been programming for about five years now and in the last few years the terms VCS, Git, Subversion and GitHub popped up more and more often. At one time, I realized that my local backups were nice, but I needed something to manage code and not files with. But, although I’ve by now made an account at many of the rather big VCS hosters, I never really sticked with one as it was all too complicated and I did not really knew what I was doing anyway. However, from the beginning on, I kinda liked GitHub mostly because of its design (I often choose apps based on their design) and it was the one which I saw in action most. Continue reading