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 ...

If you're just beginning programming, you've likely encountered the name "Git"—but what is it? And why do you need it? Git is the most important tool I use, next to my text editor, operating system, ...

GitHub's a great tool but it's definitely a little confusing the first time around (and, possibly, a few times after that). That's likely why GitHub created software (for OS X and Windows) to make the ...

Git isn't hard to learn, and when you combine Git with GitLab, you've made it a whole lot easier to share code and manage a common Git commit history with the rest of your team. This tutorial shows ...

Inherently distributed in nature, every local commit made to a Git repo will make its way to the shared, central repository, as soon a developer issues a push command. But this isn't always ideal.

Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub. Git is a software platform mainly used by computer ...