Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Git is the best and most popular tool for doing source control. There used to be competitors, but why waste bytes listing them… Git was created by the infamous Linus Torvalds (the founder of Linux).
Basic Git Commands I Use Everyday by LaurenceLinus was fed up with everything else so he wrote his own tool to helphim work on the Linux kernel more effectively.