Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Learn Git : Lesson 1 Why Git or any VCS Image from git-scm Version control system is a software which maintains the records of changes done to a project and also the states of the project which you can switch anytime. As a programmer, it sometimes happens to me when i write a piece of code and it works but when i try to optimize it then it gets broken. Also i could not be able to traceback the changes and get my working code back. If this happens to you also then you might undo tens of times to get back the previous code. But what will you do if your project contains multiple files with hundred lines of code in each file. If you now brong some changes to more than one file then its not easily possible to get back the working code. Here comes the importance of a version control system. In a VCS, you can save the current state and continue to work on a different state but it doesn't mean that vcs creates a copy of the current state....