Git

Git is not a bag of incantations to memorize for an interview. When I realized Git stores snapshots of files rather than diffs, my fear disappeared. Here are the practical lessons from ten years of botched rebases, atomic commits, and rescuing vanished code.

Branching strategy is not the bottleneck, review quality is. Short-lived branches, atomic commits, protected main and automated checks take a five person team to twenty without the arguments.