Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system. The Windows Git repository includes about 3.5 million ...

Git is a distributed version control system developed to manage Linux kernel source code, and GitHub, which hosts Git repositories, has over 100 million users. On the other hand, in the ...

Although there are several different version control systems available for use—some free and open source and some proprietary—two of the most popular systems are Subversion and Git.

In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is ...

Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux's decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows ...

Of course, both Mercurial and Git came to fruition, with Git becoming not only the kernel team’s version control system but the system for a lot of other people as well. Birth of Git ...