Git

Git (/ɡɪt/) is a distributed revision control system. It is a computer program that helps people create other computer programs together. Git was made to be fast.^[7] It was created by Linus Torvalds for use in developing the Linux kernel which he also created. Git's current development is looked after by Junio Hamano. It is free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License version 2 software license.^[8]

Git

A command-line session showing repository creation, addition of a file, and remote synchronization
Original author(s)	Linus Torvalds[1]
Developer(s)	Junio Hamano and others[2]
Initial release	7 April 2005; 20 years ago (2005-04-07)
Stable release	2.49.0[3]  / 14 March 2025
Repository	git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git
Written in	C, Shell, Perl, Tcl[4]
Operating system	POSIX (Linux, macOS, Solaris, AIX), Windows
Available in	English
Type	Version control
License	GPL-2.0-only[lower-roman 1][6]
Website	git-scm.com

See also: GitHub