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.

At Build, Microsoft now says it’s adding native version control to File Explorer by integrating systems like Git and will offer both 7z and TAR compression there, too.