GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based source code management or version control system, but that’s just the beginning.

Git is a distributed version control software. Version control is a way to save changes over time without overwriting previous versions. Being distributed means that every developer working with a Git ...

Synopsis and Motivation This is the repository for the paper "A quick introduction to version control with Git and GitHub". The goal of this paper was to introduce scientists to the concepts behind ...

This Git and GitHub tutorial for beginners teaches how to use these source code version control tools that are at the heart of modern app development.

Why? Unlike open software, which has popular collaborative tools like Git (and websites built on it, like GitHub), Subversion, and Mercurial, hardware has no system for version control.