git

• git is a program / a binary
• Initial creator - Linus Torvalds
• Development
  • Sunday 3rd April 2005
  • Self-hosted Thursday 7th April 2005
• Distributed version control system

GitHub

• Collaboration space - host for git controlled files
• Added features such as
  • Issue tracking, projects, pull requests, comments, reviews etc
• Aquired by Microsoft for 7.5B USD in 2018
• Defacto place where open source repositories are stored

Language of Git / GitHub

• Repository - a catalogue of files and folders
• Clone - Clone a repository to local device
• Pull - pull latest files from repository to your local device
• Push️ ️️️️ - pushing local changes to repository
• Merge ⛙ - merge changes from one branch to another

Git branch - example

Credits

• Street art from various artists - Pixabay - https://pixabay.com/
• Git logo from official Git site - https://git-scm.com/downloads/logos
• GitHub logo from official GitHub site - https://github.com/logos