git – free Source Control Management system

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git is a free and open-source system for Source Control Management (SCM).

Available for most operating systems, git is a flexible and highly scalable solution most notable used by the Linux Kernel project.

Most commonly, git is used for:

  • managing software development (install your own git server or use GitHub and many others)
  • distributing latest source code – you can check out source code using an http link to the git file

Current version: 2.19.1