With third-generation version control software, files are checked in and then they are merged. For example, let’s say two developers check out a file that is based on the third version.

To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software.

1 Getting started with Git Outside of installation, developers should familiarize themselves with the Git basics, such as helpful, everyday commands and some of the associated dos and don'ts. Other ...

Git is a distributed version control tool that runs locally on your computer, and that you can use to manage your project’s source history. GitHub is a cloud-based platform built around the Git ...

Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) originally created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to support the development of the Linux kernel. It allows developers to keep track of every change made ...

Now that you’ve deployed a Git repository, it’s time to switch to Joplin and install the export2git, which not only lets you save your notes as .md files for the Git repo, but can even commit ...

In fact, I’m talking about Git, the version control system. Last time I talked about how the program came to be and offered you a few tutorials.

WRONG. The difference between SVN – a centralized version control, and Git – a distributed version control, is huge. We got ourselves into trouble via false assumptions almost immediately.

Microsoft is backing Git rather than attempting to recreate the distributed version-control wheel. Here's the roadmap detailing how Git support is coming to Visual Studio and TFS.