Mastering Git: A Comprehensive Guide to Version Control for DevOps Engineers

Version control is an intrinsic characteristic of current software development and, even more so, in the DevOps environment. Git is an open - source, distributed version control system that has become the de facto standard to maintain the variation in the source code and, therefore, support collaboration and software development in general. This research paper summarizes version control as a roadmap that a DevOps engineer may use to master Git. It explains the very foundation of version control and the importance of version control to a DevOps engineer. It also goes deep into the use of Git commands and workflows. This paper shall attempt to equip DevOps professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to manage source code repositories through investigation into problem statements, solutions, uses, impacts, and scope of Git in software development and DevOps. The insights shall help the DevOps engineers use Git to accomplish collaboration, scalability, and automation in their development processes.