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1 Git and GitHub Background and History

This part of the book provides background on version control, Git, GitHub, and the broader collaboration context that made these tools so important.

The chapters in this section explain where Git came from, how GitHub grew into a dominant collaboration platform, and why Git-based workflows differ from simpler shared-document systems such as Google Docs or Dropbox.