Git

It is important to know that git != GitHub.

In this topic, you will learn about both git and GitHub.

Git
You’ll learn why to use git and how to use git (with an emphasis on the UI within VS Code). This lesson will cover the popular commands such as pull and push. You’ll learn what a branch is and how to use them. This lesson will discuss merge conflicts and how to resolve them.

GitHub
This lesson will cover some of the tools that GitHub offers above and beyond git.

What is Git?

git is a Source Control Management tool. It offers:

• History Tracking

  • Developers want to have access to every version of a file

  • Enables rollback to any point in time

• Collaboration

  • Enables multiple developers to change the same file at the same time

  • Merges changes and allows humans to do conflict resolution

• Server-side backup

  • The server can be on the cloud which is backed up

History of git

Git does not stand for anything; it’s just the name of a version control system created in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the founder of Linux. The word “git” is a British slang term, which can refer to a silly, foolish, or annoying person. Linus said: Git is “the stupid tool that I made because I was fed up with other systems”. Git is: distributed, fast, powerful, reliable Git is: complicated and console based

Linus Torvals

I’m a bastard. I have absolutely no clue why people can ever think otherwise. Yet they do. People think I’m a nice guy, and the fact is that I’m a scheming, conniving bastard who doesn’t care for any hurt feelings or lost hours of work, if it just results in what I consider to be a better system. And I’m not just saying that. I’m really not a very nice person. I can say “I don’t care” with a straight face, and really mean it.