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You can Git there too :)

The ways that I work have changed in several areas over the last two years. Not only am I working with more complex systems, but I need to share what I do with a lot of people as well, and in order to collaborate we need to keep the state of our work in sync.   In short - what’s needed for this to work is a content management system. While there is nothing special about that, the system that I'm getting to know is better and more available than most of the other systems out there.   I am talking about Git. Now some might arrest me for calling it a CMS, so I'll quickly correct myself by stating that it is a revision control system. Regardless of that I thought it was a pain at first when I started using it. The fact that it mainly was designed with Linux in mind didn't exactly help a Windows guy as I am, but I've actually found quite a few quirks that make my work a lot easier. These I will come back to in later posts. For now I'll stick to describing the conce