NgSysV2-5.2: A Young Person's Introduction to Git

This post series is indexed at NgateSystems.com . You'll find a super-useful keyword search facility there too. Last reviewed: Dec '24 1. Introduction As an IT beginner creating your first VSCode project, learning Javascript, and exploring the wonders of Svelte, probably the last thing on your mind will be the thought of turning your project into a Git repository (whatever that might be!). But with experience, you'll start to realise that managing the source code in your project is quite a challenge. You will make changes, find that you've got into a mess and want everything to return to a stable state so you can try again. Hmm. How do you manage to do that? Post 1.1 mentioned VSCode's "timeline" facility. This lets you view a time-stamped list of "saves" on a file and enables you to select any of these to replace the current version. This is fine in its own way but has obvious limitations - for example, what if you wanted to reset a whole bunch of files to a particular point? Git, by