Note that Git is the version control system while GitHub is a website. However, if you are a hardcore command line user, you can manipulate GitHub from there, too.

Git, the open source distributed software version control system pioneered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in 2005, is now gaining real momentum with developers.

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.

Version control for the enterprise These are only some of the challenges facing Git adoption in the enterprise, but they’re enough to establish a pattern, one that is overlooked surprisingly often.

Organizations that write any type of code usually use a source code version control system (VCS) such as Git (and its commercial variants) or Apache Subversion.

Back in February, Microsoft made the surprising announcement that the Windows development team was going to move to using the open source Git version control system for Windows development. A ...

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 ...