Git Gud

Tutorial for setting up and using version-control software.

What is Git?

Git is a version-control tool used to track files and sync them across computers. Git is handy because it keeps backups of project files over time, both on the cloud and on your system. If you make breaking changes but don't realize until after you did some other stuff, you can simply revert only the breaking changes, while leaving other things unaffected. If your hard-drive crashes and you lose all your files, they're still backed up on the server. Even if the server also crashes, anyone else working on the project will still have the entire project history stored on their machine, which can then be pushed to a different Git server to continue collaboration.

Note that these benefits only apply if you're properly utilizing Git, hence this tutorial.

Git is primarily used to allow for code-collaboration between peers. This means it works with text files, and can track changes to individual lines of text, allowing users to see what changed across periods of time. However, Git can be extended to work with larger, binary-format files like images, meshes, and other things. Enter Git LFS (Large File System). We'll be using this system to store larger files on the cloud, like Blender files, textures, and Unreal Blueprints.

Guides

• Setting up Git DO THIS FIRST
• Synchronizing Changes