Introduction

Git is a distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development; it has since been adopted by many other projects.

Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, and is not dependent on network access or a central server.

Git is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2.