GIT

by Conrad Gomes on

I’ve been a SVN user for quite some time. However it’s good to understand why GIT has risen in popularity.

GIT was developed by the same team that developed Linux. Key differences as compared to other version control systems

  1. Distributed: Everyone gets access to the repository on their system unlike other version control systems which have a central repository on a server. The main advantage being that even if network access is not available you can still interact with the version control system.

  2. Snapshots: A version of a file is the snapshot of the file at that point in time. It is not the sum of all differences. Basically the smallest unit of change is a file.

URLs that I found useful:
Setup: https://help.github.com/articles/set-up-git
Design Basics: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Git-Basics
Test Run: http://try.github.io/levels/1/challenges/1