Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Git is lightning fast and has a huge ecosystem …

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Now What? Now that you have downloaded Git, it's time to start using it. Read the Book Dive into the Pro Git book and learn at your own pace. Download a GUI Several free and commercial GUI tools …

With Git, every time you commit, or save the state of your project, Git basically takes a picture of what all your files look like at that moment and stores a reference to that snapshot.

Git was built to work on the Linux kernel, meaning that it was built to handle repositories with tens of millions of lines of code from the start. Speed and performance has always been a primary design …

Since Git is quite excellent at preserving backwards compatibility, any recent version should work just fine. Though most of the commands we use should work even in ancient versions of Git, some of …

git config help bugreport Credential helpers Getting and Creating Projects init clone Basic Snapshotting add status diff commit notes restore reset rm mv Branching and Merging branch checkout switch …

The entire Pro Git book, written by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub and published by Apress, is available here. All content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike …

The output of "git push" depends on the transport method used; this section describes the output when pushing over the Git protocol (either locally or via ssh).

Now that you have Git on your system, you’ll want to do a few things to customize your Git environment. You should have to do these things only once on any given computer; they’ll stick around between …