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Write and commit in small chunks

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Write and commit in small chunks

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- [Instructor] Over the next several videos, we're going to look at some of the basic pieces of working with version control in a longer context. We'll start in this video, with making small commits one at a time. Our project is technical documentation for ddev local, which is a wrapper around Docker. It lets programmers work with the same versions of all the pieces of a website's text stack relatively easily. In a project, we have a READ ME, this index.markdown file, and documentation for users of ddev. I've opened these files here in Visual Studio Code and in Sublime Merge. Currently everything is untracked, so let's start by initializing the project by staging everything and committing, we'll call this the initial commit, then commit all 34 files. Now that we've done that, we can switch back to Visual Studio Code, and actually look at these files. They're written in markdown, which is one of the most popular ways…

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