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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.
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The foundational distributed version-control system used to track changes and collaborate on source code.
About the Project
Why use this?
Git is the de facto standard for source-control management. It records project history, enables branching and merging, supports distributed collaboration, and integrates with virtually every modern development platform and CI/CD system.
Every engineering team benefits from Git because it provides an auditable history of code changes, safe experimentation through branches, and reliable collaboration across repositories and teams.
Key Features
- Distributed version control with full local history
- Lightweight branching and merging
- Support for large repositories and complex workflows
- Integration with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and CI systems
- Mature tooling across editors, CLIs, and GUIs
- Reference / Repo
- https://github.com/git/git
- Tool / Hosted
- https://git-scm.com/
- Replaces / Alternative to
- Perforce, Subversion
- Free layer
- open-source