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Git is just pressing save
After a few hours of building with their AI, almost every group experiences the same moment. The agent asks a question that no one understands: shall I commit these changes? Everyone looks at me. The word sounds like something you need training for.
That is not the case. Anyone who has ever saved a Word document already understands the most important part of Git. The jargon is the only barrier, and it is thinner than it seems.
What Git actually does
When you build with an AI, something is constantly changing. Your agent adjusts a line here, adds a file there, rewrites a part that did not work. All those files are plain text, and Git keeps track of what has changed in which file on which line.
Git first collects those changes in a sort of waiting room. At a certain point it asks: shall I record this now? That recording is called a commit. And a commit is really nothing else than pressing save in Word. Only Git remembers every time you saved, so you can always go back to a previous version.
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