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 ...

Version control with Git We’ve covered some of the basics, so now let’s dive into more detail about how Git works and why it’s so popular. A full-blown Git tutorial is beyond the scope of ...

Although there are several different version control systems available for use—some free and open source and some proprietary—two of the most popular systems are Subversion and Git.

Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) originally created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to support the development of the Linux kernel. It allows developers to keep track of every change made ...

How we use git and GitHub Let’s look at a few examples of how we think about some git and GitHub concepts in our day-to-day use at Pew Research Center. We expect some of these concepts to evolve as we ...

While we're on the subject, Obsidian’s Git plugin needs a little more tinkering than its Joplin counterpart, but you can even use it to sync your notes to a private GitHub repository.

Feel like you're getting a handle on distributed version control? Take this 10-question introduction-to-Git quiz, and test your knowledge of basic commands, the history of the tool and how vendors are ...