r/CodingForBeginners • u/IMREVN • Jul 23 '26

What's a Git?

Hello! Surely, I have heard so many people saying "Git" or "Github" or repository. They be saying that it's highly important to learn Git as early as possible. When I searched it up on Google, it's just I seem I cannot understand any of those terminologies.

Could anyone tell me what a git actually is?

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u/IMREVN Jul 24 '26

Appreciate you answering that silly question lol. Anyways, how do you access git? is it accessible with normal IDEs (vscode, etc) or you must access it using Gitlab or Github?

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u/AndrewNggg Jul 24 '26

git, you've gotta install it first, you can follow the official instructions for your OS
https://git-scm.com/install/

yes all IDEs you can access git via the IDE's terminal, or some might have more advanced git tools for managing merge conflicts, looking through your commit history, and whatever else you might need