Git Survival Guide

This guide is intended to be both a good starting point and reference to Git users.

Background

Git is a distributed version control system, originally developed by Linus Torvalds and others to develop the Linux kernel.

The name git comes from old British English and signifies an annoying or unpleasant person. To understand the full meaning of the word git, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(slang) .