Git is a very popular and widely used version control system for developers. It was originally released and authored by Linus Torvalds on April 7th, 2005. Torvalds created git as a way to manage kernel development for the Linux operating system.
Git works by tracking and managing changes in specific folders that are designated by the user. These folders are known as repositories, or repos for short. The user makes commits to these repos, which are essentially snapshots of the files in the repo at a given time. Then, if something goes wrong or you need to roll back to another version, you can easily go back to a previous commit.
Everyone can benefit from using Git to version their projects! Repository hosting sites like GitHub make it easy for independent developers and teams to manage and share different features and versions of their work. Git's additional functionalities like branching and merging also make it much easier to work together with others but on seperate parts of a project. Click here to learn more about Git!
