Jason Anton is a full-stack developer with Owings Mills-based software firm Bellese Technologies and project lead for civic tech org Code for Baltimore. He is going to walk us through his workflow in GitHub and illustrate “version control,” which allows developers to manage changes to a project. When working with a team of developers on a project, this is why and how a developer makes a feature branch from the main branch before they change a line of code.

“The best way to understand GitHub is to think of it as similar to time-travel in comic books,” said Anton. “Git works in what are called branches, which are similar to the idea of a timeline. There can be many branches —or timelines —but there must always be a master or main branch. Or, in comics, a prime timeline.”

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