] has become the defacto standard for open source software development and is increasingly being used for enterprise s/w dev
] originally developed by Linus Torvalds for managing the Linux os project, not developed as a Source Control Management(SCM) app but more as a filesystem
]
] git bash
] command line scripting environment for working with git projects
] git gui
] native graphical UI for working with git projects, subset of all git commands available in,
] (third party) gui clients are also available for working with git projects, choose your poison
[WHY]
] a "distributed" version control system - for source code management(SCM)
] primarily used in software development projects,
] to control/monitor/document changes to a project,
] becomes essential on a larger project where multiple developers will work on the same project
] free
]
] open source
] licenced under gnu general public v2
] local
] FAST - Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full version tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server