1. START

2. Welcome to the weekly
presentation on
GIT
a version control system
By : Farhan Ar Rafi
Management Trainee, Eminence

3. WHAT is Git?
• a version/revision control system
• distributed (each computer has complete a set
of files)
• developed by Linus Benedict Torvalds in 2005

4. What Git does?
“Checkins” are basically uploading the file that has been changed since last version.
Each time a snapshot of changed files are taken.

5. Why Git?
• Free and Open Source
• Can be used as a work dairy
• Safe deposit of code
• Keep track of files and changes
• Let others collaborate

6. Who uses Git?

7. Advantages
• Keep Track of Software Projects
• Independent of Network Access
• Doesn’t need a central server
• Faster compared to others
• Let multiple people work without conflict

8. Drawbacks
• Doesn’t work well with doc, ppt, excel files
• Doesn’t have an User Interface (where you
can click and do the job)
• Supports only Command Line Interface

9. References
• http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Git-Basics
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

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