Chapter 9. Version Control Integration

	"As a project drags on, my git commit messages get less and less informative."
	--Randall Munroe

A lot of my friends use IntelliJ IDEs and hence, have forgotten how to use most Git command-line tools. I can't blame them; the interface that we have is very simple to use, and most of the common commands are available to us in a neatly packed menu. That isn't to say that this layer of abstraction like many others is leaky. In this chapter, I will take a quick look at most of the tools and talk about some limitations. Version control is in no way a simple topic and hence, I won't explain its topics; I'll merely show you how to use the tools available in PyCharm. We will mainly go over:

• Initializing version control

• Ignoring files

• Adding remotes

• The VCS menu

• The Changes panel

• Change lists