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When you work on a development team, you may be touching similar parts of the code throughout a project. As a result, changes made in one part of the source can be incompatible with those made by another developer working at the same time.

Version control helps solve these kinds of problems. The following topics help to explain what version control is and the various types of version control you can use while working on your own projects or with your development team.

• Types of version controlVersion control helps you and your team keep code changes compatible. Determine which type is right for you.
• DVCS workflows for BitbucketBitbucket Cloud supports both Git or Mercurial.
• Find the command lineThe command line's not as scary as it sounds. See why.
• Install and set up GitWant access to Git repositories on Bitbucket Cloud? Install and set up Git first.
• Git commandsHere's a cheat sheet of commands for using Git.

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