Hey! Let me ask you something. You are working on a project. You have been coding for 3 days straight. Everything is going well. Then you make a change. Something breaks. You try to fix it. Now something else breaks. You think — "I just want to go back to how it was yesterday." But you cannot. Because you kept saving over the same file. The old version is gone. Sound familiar? That is the exact problem Git was built to solve. 1. What Was Life Like Before Git? Before Git existed — developers had it rough. And not in a small way. Imagine a team of 5 developers working on the same project. Developer 1 works on the login page. Developer 2 works on the dashboard. Developer 3 fixes a bug in the payment flow. How do they share their work? They emailed files to each other. Yes. Literally. ZIP files over email.…