Git is the most popular version control system (VCS) among programmers and developers for software development. It’s free and open-source and available for all major operating systems: Linux ...

Windows will almost certainly never be open source, but virtually all Microsoft Windows engineers are now using the open-source program Git to build Windows on.

As of Tuesday, Windows developers can download the public beta of SourceTree, a visual tool for working with GitHub, BitBucket, Stash or any other code repository based on Git or Mercurial.

If you've ever used Linux software before, odds are you've come across Git. Over the years, this system has become a staple for delivering open-source tools and applications to PCs across the ...