Using Git for Network Configuration Management
Do Network Engineers use Git? Yes, network engineers do use Git, and its usage in the field of network engineering has grown significantly in recent years. Git, a version control system originally …
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The most popular version control system in the world today is Git.
Git is an actively maintained open source project originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux. Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
Git stands for Global Information Tracker or as Linus Torvalds said in the original readme of the Git code – “Git” can mean anything, depending on your mood.
1000’s of software projects rely on Git for version control, including commercial projects as well as open source.
Having a distributed architecture, Git is an example of a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System).
With Git, every developer’s working copy of the code is also a repository that can contain the full history of all changes.