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Git is a free and open-source software shared under the GPL-2.0-only license. Git was originally created by Linus Torvalds for version control during the development of the Linux kernel. [14] The trademark "Git" is registered by the Software Freedom Conservancy, marking its official recognition and continued evolution in the open-source community.
[1] [2] [3] Git, the world's most popular version control system, [4] is a distributed version control system. In 2010, software development author Joel Spolsky described distributed version control systems as "possibly the biggest advance in software development technology in the [past] ten years".
VFS for Git was originally named Git Virtual File System (GVFS). However due to complaints by the developers of GNOME over confusion with GNOME Virtual File System , Microsoft announced that it would solicit ideas for a new name of the software in June 2018, following its acquisition of GitHub. [ 2 ]
Most version control systems allow multiple developers to edit the same file at the same time. The first developer to "check in" changes to the central repository always succeeds. The system may provide facilities to merge further changes into the central repository, and preserve the changes from the first developer when other developers check in.
GitHub (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t h ʌ b /) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. [8]
To commit a change in git on the command line, assuming git is installed, the following command is run: [1] git commit -m 'commit message' This is also assuming that the files within the current directory have been staged as such: [2] git add . The above command adds all of the files in the working directory to be staged for the git commit.
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Magit (/ ˈ m æ d ʒ ɪ t / MA-jit or / ˈ m ʌ ɡ ɪ t / MUH-git [3]) is an interface to the Git version control system, available as a GNU Emacs package [4] [5] written in Emacs Lisp.It is available through the MELPA package repository, [6] on which it is the most-downloaded non-library package, with over 4.3 million downloads as of September 2024.