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  Understanding Git and GitHub has become crucial for developers of all stripes in the rapidly changing field of software development. Knowing how to use these tools will improve your productivity and teamwork whether you're an intern or a seasoned engineer. However, what are GitHub and Git precisely, and why are they so significant? 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗶𝘁 Git is a distributed version control system intended to work quickly and effectively on any size project, from little to extremely big. Git, developed by the same person who created the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, enables several developers to collaborate on the same codebase without overwriting each other's modifications. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗶𝘁 Branching and Merging: One of Git's primary characteristics is its branching mechanism. For experimentation, bug patches, or new features, you may make separate branches and merge them back into the main codebase when they...