GIT Part 1

Linus Torvalds

How did GIT come into existence?

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, wanted to make an OS that was open source. He used to worK on UNIX. So, based on unix he started to develop his own operating system. Later on he also added in his team, the people all over the globe who were intrested in the development of Linux. Every on used VCS. But Linus Torvalds did not like the time it took just to commit a single line of code. So he decided to develop his own versioning system, which will complete the operations within approximatly 3 seconds. This is how GIT came into existance. GIT is free for public access. But if you want to make the repository private, you have to use their paid service.

What is Git?

Git is a Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCSs). In a DVCS (such as Git, Mercurial, Bazaar or Darcs), clients don’t just check out the latest snapshot of the files: they fully mirror the repository. Thus if any server dies, and these systems were collaborating via it, any of the client repositories can be copied back up to the server to restore it. Every checkout is really a full backup of all the data. Furthermore, many of these systems deal pretty well with having several remote repositories they can work with, so you can collaborate with different groups of people in different ways simultaneously within the same project. This allows you to set up several types of workflows that aren’t possible in centralized systems, such as hierarchical models. 

Features

Git is easy to use. It’s incredibly fast, it’s very efficient with large projects, and it has an incredible branching system for non-linear development.

Part 2 Getting started wit GIT