You've likely heard of Git as a mysterious tool programmers use to work with their code. However, since Git can track changes in just about any text file, you can use Git for more than maintaining and ...

Microsoft’s acquisition of GitHub is complete, and former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman is now in charge of the cloud code management service. It wasn’t a surprising acquisition: Over the last few years, ...

Torvalds and other Linux kernel developers created Git in 2005 as Linux's distributed version control system. It's also used by multiple major companies including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to ...

It is very easy to see exactly what changed. So even if you don’t work in a team, there are advantages to having source code under control. If you are already using a more advanced IDE, Git is ...