From the course: Version Control for Everyone

Our manifesto: Everyone makes mistakes - GitHub Tutorial

From the course: Version Control for Everyone

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Our manifesto: Everyone makes mistakes

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- If you've heard of version control before but aren't using it yet, you probably have some ideas about why that is. Here are a few misconceptions that need to be shown the door. It's only for programmers or other nerds. Version control is, without a doubt, most commonly used by developers and programmers. These tools were invented with the needs of coders in mind but as you'll see, there are other lines of work where version control is helpful. Using version control is a lot of extra work. Now I'm not going to lie, it does take some extra work to use version control. You're basically forced to keep track of what you're doing in a structured way. Here's the thing though. You decide how much extra work is needed and the fact that you can get more done safely means you should come out ahead very quickly. And like anything else, become second nature with practice. The software is hard to use or I'd have to use the command line. This certainly used to be true years ago. Early version control software was barely sufficient if you really knew how to use it and if you didn't, forget it. And none of them was graphical. Nowadays with the help of apps like those we'll see in this course, it's pretty easy and I dare say even pleasant to work with these tools. I work by myself, so there's no point. Along with making courses for LinkedIn, I'm also a solo freelancer. I use version control all the time and indeed this course was largely inspired by the mental blocks I myself had to get over to start using version control myself. I don't expect you to be 100% convinced just from my saying these things but you now have some context for thinking about version control software in a way that you feel more like something helpful and less like work.

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