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Abinav Seelan edited this page Aug 30, 2016 · 2 revisions

Git is a mature, actively maintained open source project originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the famous creator of the Linux operating system kernel.

Git is a Distributed VCS system, which has become the most widely used version control system for open source projects and general development work.

Git is the best choice for most devs today. Here are some points why Git is good:

  • Git is a Distributed VCS. Hence you don't need to rely on a central server and can work and modify files as you want on your local machine
  • It is the de-facto standard for VCS in today's time.
  • It is for open source by open source
  • Fairly easy to pick up once you wrap your head around the core concepts =)

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