With third-generation version control software, files are checked in and then they are merged. For example, let’s say two developers check out a file that is based on the third version.

Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub.

Although there are several different version control systems available for use—some free and open source and some proprietary—two of the most popular systems are Subversion and Git.

Git is a distributed version control system (DVCS) originally created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to support the development of the Linux kernel. It allows developers to keep track of every change made ...

How we use git and GitHub Let’s look at a few examples of how we think about some git and GitHub concepts in our day-to-day use at Pew Research Center. We expect some of these concepts to evolve as we ...

While we're on the subject, Obsidian’s Git plugin needs a little more tinkering than its Joplin counterpart, but you can even use it to sync your notes to a private GitHub repository.