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Git & GitHub Introduction

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Git : Git is fast, easy to learn, distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds: The man who created Linux operating system. Git was originally created for managing & developing Linux kernel software. Many large IT players like Google, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook are using Git for managing their key projects and it’s extremely popular among developers. Git is platform, file type and programming language independent.   Traditional code repositories like CVS keeps single central repo but Git provides a local copy of repo to each developer while maintaining a remote central master repo. Local repo can be synced and push changes to remote repo as and when required. https://git-scm.com/ GitHub: GitHub is Git repository hosting service, owned by Microsoft since 2018. Basically, it is central or remote repository where all Git projects created in developers’ machine can be hosted for sharing with large audiences. It is largest host of