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Tools for continuous integration

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Tools for continuous integration

- [Instructor] One of the greatest benefits of using Git is that it integrates with many different software development tools. Today, one of the most important tools for software development teams use is their continuous integration and continuous delivery tool, or CI/CD. Let's take a few minutes to discuss CI/CD and its relationship with Git. Developers working on a software development team will normally work on code independently using their local machine. At some point, that code must be integrated into a shared code repository with everyone else's changes. This is often a point of failure and a pain point for development teams because conflicts wind up being committed into the repository. Continuous integration can alleviate these headaches caused by Big Bang integrations. When integrations occur at the end of a project, it's very painful. Developers try to merge large blocks of code, often to meet a deadline. Continuous integration mandates that we commit our changes and…

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