How to easily revert to earlier versions with VS Code and GIT

TLDR: Using Git and VS Code allows for easy version control and troubleshooting in real-life scenarios.

1. 00:00 👨‍💻 In this video, Isaias demonstrates how to use Git to easily revert to earlier versions and troubleshoot problems in real-life scenarios.

2. 00:54 👨‍💻 Having a versioning system is important to easily revert to earlier versions and avoid the annoyance of not knowing which version is which when copying folders.

3. 01:38 👨‍💻 The process of using VS Code and Git is more important than the tools themselves, as having a logical process is the point of using these tools.

4. 02:32 📝 By clicking a button and checking out the master branch, the speaker was able to revert their code to an earlier version and test the update function.

5. 03:57 👨‍💻 The speaker highlights the concept of how easy it is to revert back to a different version with VS Code and GIT, while troubleshooting a problem with downloading the latest version of a file.

6. 05:11 📝 The speaker updates their VS Code version, checks it, then discards changes and switches between branches without losing anything.

7. 06:48 📝 You can easily switch between different versions of your code locally without needing to connect to GitHub.

8. 07:48 📝 You work locally most of the time and only pull or push from GitHub manually, and VS Code makes it easy to revert to earlier versions with a simple right-click.

[dillonmderosa]

Excellent overview. This is actually amazing and cool inside on how programmers go back and forth between versions when troubleshooting. Cheers!

[tdalon]

You switch versions without connecting to GitHub=locally? This sounds like too much of magic to me.