Git for Network Engineers, Part 1: From Zero to Your First Pull Request
The article introduces Git as a crucial version control system for network engineers. It emphasizes the importance of maintaining a history of changes, the ability to undo mistakes, and the benefits of collaboration through a single source of truth. The piece serves as the first part of a series aimed at helping engineers understand and utilize Git effectively.
- ▪Git allows users to track every state of every file, providing a historical record of changes.
- ▪It offers advanced undo capabilities, enabling users to revert files to previous states quickly.
- ▪GitHub serves as a platform for hosting repositories and facilitating collaboration among multiple users.
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FundamentalsGit for Network Engineers, Part 1: From Zero to Your First Pull RequestTony Mattke · 2026.05.28 · 17 min read Git for Network Engineers Part 1 of 1 1 Git for Network Engineers, Part 1: From Zero to Your First Pull RequestLast Tuesday you made changes to a playbook because the on-call engineer needed an ACL pushed in a hurry. This morning the same playbook is failing, and the version that worked last week is on a random jumphost reanmed to backup-configs.yml.bak, or backup-configs_FINAL_v2_tony.yml in a shared drive. Or it’s just gone… Every network engineer eventually has the moment where the “I’ll back this up later” workflow finally costs them.If you’re reading this because Claude has been writing code for you and now you need somewhere to actually keep that code, welcome.
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