Plain text accounting is a way of tracking your finances using simple text files and command line software.

Being about to work on my end-of-studies internship, and therefore enter the adult, professional world, I decided that I needed a better way to track my income, expenses, and net worth.

Git is a distributed version control system. Originally written by Linus Torvalds to be used with the development of the Linux kernel, it has now become the go-to way to share work between multiple developers.

In this article I will summarise what I feel to be the next-step basics of git, explaining each notion along the way.