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 ...

A lot of non-coders and people unfamiliar with the app development scene often confuse Git and GitHub, but only the latter is the online code repository for inscrutable projects. That's one half of ...

Git, the open source distributed software version control system pioneered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in 2005, is now gaining real momentum with developers. But don’t count out rivals like ...

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Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.

What if the very tool you rely on every day—Git—was holding you back? For all its ubiquity, Git isn’t without flaws: rigid branching structures, frustrating rebases, and the occasional merge conflict ...

Version control with Git has become an essential tool for every developer & designer. Top projects like jQuery, Ruby on Rails, and the Linux Kernel have been using Git for years, so it’s time you ...