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The point of GIT, and what it's trying to solve basically boils down to this:
1) The repository lives on your local OS file system. What that offers is a way to version control anything you want (more on text vs. binary ahead), and can sneaker net the entire repository with the copy command without losing version information of changes! All of the deltas and history are all contained in a nice neat folder named .git.
2) You can also (instead of sneaker net) host the source code on a remote server, which allows anyone with the necessary privileges to pull or commit changes.
3) You can apply filters on what files are committed (checked-in for SVN/SourceSafe users) using the .gitignore file. This text file lets you filter out compiler files (e.g. .objs) and auto-generated files (e.g. files that change by the build process and cannot/should not be modified).
4) The real power comes in with the versioning. Every commit from the first repository creation is demarcated with a SHA. Git SHAs are unique identifiers for commits, files, and other objects in a Git repository.
5) What can you do with SHAs? You can branch off of anywhere to create a separate set of commits unique to that branch. Example: You might want to branch at a project release point, so that development can continue while changes are frozen.
Here is where real power lies. Devs have the ability to continue to make commits to the branch (e.g. a QA branch when devs get feedback on bugs to make fixes), while development continues along the main line. When the QA branch is blessed and has all of the fixes necessary to promote to release, the changes can be merged back into the main line. While most of that can be automated, some user interaction might (often will) be necessary to resolve conflicts.
6) In projects of 2 or more devs, typically there are multiple concurrent branches. Example: Development, QA and Release. Depending on the shop, some choose to branch to make a latest QA, some merge the latest dev line into a separate QA line. There are variations on the theme, but the takeaway is that you can make Git adapt to your dev culture, and not the other way around.
7) Lastly, there are "stupid Git tricks" that can make life easier (and more complicated, depending on your perspective). Example: One can Rebase to get to a "clean" state. A rebase will simply drop merge commits from the todo list, and put the rebased commits into a single, linear branch. Rebase, along with Merge, are just Git commands that specialize in integrating changes.
8) There are many 3rd party utilities for integrating with Git. You mention Visual Studio as one example, but there are many GUI interfaces (e.g. SourceTree) as well as command line (e.g. Tortoise Git). The beauty of Git is that, once again, devs aren't locked into using only one Git tool... you can choose the GUI you like, or drop down to the command line. The changes, commits and pulls still behave the same.
9) Git is typically used to provide revision control on text files, but can be used on binary files as well. Once could imagine a watermark or binary file where the actual bytes matter. You would then want to revision down to the byte level.
Git is a relatively straight forward tool for revision control management that is deployed across many OS platforms to provide uniformity. You only need to learn Git once -- you then know how it works on Windows, Linux and the MAC (or any other OS/machine environment that supports it).
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Hi All,
Got a telling off for working on prototypes at my desk (you have one small explosion, which doesn't even set the fire alarm off) and you get sent to Elba or in my case a desk on the other side of the room! 
Well at least I am now not overlooked by seniors! Pluses and Negatives...
modified 13-Feb-24 9:55am.
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I started it a while back, but I couldn't progress well. I could find out the logic and I had the bad luck of finding mostly morons that didn't like new players.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Could be worse, could be the basement.
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On a team one time that was in the basement. Very large room and my team was the only ones down there.
Then the renovations on the other part of the room started.
Jack hammer for a week didn't bother me.
But then they started up with the nail guns. I ended up going home after a couple of hours of that.
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I hear Elba is nice this time of year.
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explosion?
no video then it didn't happen! 
true story - I worked at a USAF electronic warfare facility back in the 80s. One contractor there tossed in a bag of popcorn into the microwave and hit the wrong time button. Back then, the microwaves were HIGH power. So when the bag caught fire, triggered the smoke alarms, etc. Two buildings (800+ people) had to be evacuated, the base fire department came in, MPs were securing the facility, etc.
The Colonel was NOT pleased.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Makes a loud SNAP followed by smoke & swear words seem mild...
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That happened last year in an hospital in near me because someone put a small "brötchen" (round small piece of bread) in the microwave, set the wrong time for it and went out of the room... 
The hospital manager was not pleased as well, at all.
Luckily in that wing there were no severe patients and everyone was able to move by themselves.
M.D.V.
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Back in the prehistoric days when I worked at EMI ('79-80) one of the team I was attached to used to experiment with connecting electronic components across the mains and seeing how spectacular a demise he could elicit. Metal can transistors were quite pretty, giving a small volcano effect as they boiled, rupturing the can as sparks flew out of the hole, but for sheer impact large, low voltage (12-35V) electrolytic capacitors took some beating. Big bang and a cloud of vile smoke which would drift through the facility, which was a typical 30-40's era factory, composed of individual "lab/workshops" which had no ceiling of their own, so really just solid dividers open to the glass roof.
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Officer, officer... I don't know what it is happening with the people... they must all have gone nuts, they are all driving on the wrong line.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Must be done to divert the attention of the police from other criminal activities ... 
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