Editor's note As a source code tool, Git can be used for a multitude of reasons inside the development environment. Any developer should know the Git basics and which commands can be used in each ...

Since its inception, the Git DVCS tool's default branch name was set to master. Every Git repository had a master branch unless a developer took explicit steps to remove it, which was rarely ever done ...

Git uses a distributed model, where a canonical copy of working code base, called the mainline, is kept on a hub, and individual developers can make copies of the code base on their own machines.

Microsoft is supporting git, the DVCS system initially developed by Linus Torvalds so that he could better manage development of the Linux kernel. git is arguably the most popular, most widely ...

Mercurial is a highly scalable DVCS that was designed by Matt Mackall. It was originally intended to serve as a BitKeeper replacement for the Linux kernel, but it was displaced by Git.