Learn how to use Git to version control a cake recipe… and other things like code!

A Survivor’s Guide to Git

Kevin Miller
Nov 7 · 18 min read

or How to Bake a Cake with Git

Git is hard. Git is intimidating. There’s a giant learning curve. And as software engineers it’s essential.

Git is the industry standard for version control. It’s something that most of us don’t learn in our schools or coding boot camps.

I first heard about Git during my boot camp and went through a few tutorials, but it wasn’t until I…

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