What are Git and GitHub?

…and why use them?

Jonathan Peake

What is Git?

• Program to track file changes and create a history of those changes

• Creates a ‘container’ for a set of files called a repository

What is GitHub?

• Collaborative software designed to organize files and track changes by different people through time

• Built on top of Git

• Allows to sync (clone) Git repositories locally and over the web

Why use Git and GitHub?

• Version control - for you and others

• Collaboration - within your team and among colleagues and peers outside of your team

• Project management - collaborative “to-do” lists

• Publishing platform - README files and GitHub Pages