What is Git?

Git is a distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. It enables multiple developers to work together on a project and manages changes to a project’s files, allowing for version control and collaboration between contributors. Git tracks alterations in a set of files in a repository. Each developer works locally and can save their changes (commit), create branches for new features or tests, and merge changes with others, ensuring all participants have the latest version of the project. It was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel. Git has become the standard for source code management and is widely used in software development and other version control tasks.