To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software. The first ...

Git is straightforward to begin with, but when you're ready, you can progress onto more advanced topics like branching, merging, conflict resolution, etc. Let's start by changing to a directory and ...

Here at ProfHacker we’ve written a lot about backups, but never about version control. In fact, when I recently wrote “A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website”, I ...

Git is the most popular version control system (VCS) among programmers and developers for software development. It’s free and open-source and available for all major operating systems: Linux, macOS, ...

Torvalds and other Linux kernel developers created Git in 2005 as Linux's distributed version control system. It's also used by multiple major companies including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to ...

Get three programmers into a discussion about which code versioning system they prefer, and you're guaranteed to end up with some ruffled feathers. I mean, the choice is obvious, right? Which source ...

Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system. The Windows Git repository includes about 3.5 million ...

Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows.