The Use of Git as Version Control in the South African Software Engineering Classroom

Version control has become an essential skill for any competent software engineer. Students working their way into the software engineering industry need to be prepared to make full use of this technology. This paper discussed the use of Git as version control tool in the South African university classroom. South African demographics differ from those of developed countries, particularly where Internet access is concerned. However, this is can be overcome using the distributed nature of Git. This paper gives a brief overview of version control as well as explores the introduction of version control and Git as a tool in solo as well as team project development in the South African context.