Managing software development projects with Git
Git It Right
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The Git version control system is a powerful tool for managing large and small software development projects. We'll show you how to get started.
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With its egalitarian spirit and tradition of strong community involvement, open source development doesn't scale very well without some form of version control.
Over the past several years, Git [1] has settled in as the most viable and visible version control tool for the Linux space. Git was created by Linus Torvalds himself, and it got its start as the version control system for the Linux kernel development community (see the box entitled "The Birth of Git"). Since then, Git has been adopted by hundreds of open source projects and is the featured tool on several large code-hosting sites, such as GitHub.
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