
Git is a popular open-source distributed revision control system created by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel. You can use Git to manage or back-up personal projects, class work and resources, local or system-wide configuration files, websites, and more. Git users of all levels of experience should find something of value in this talk, which will cover a brief history of Git, simple usage, core concepts, how to share and work with others using Github, tools for popular operating systems, and practical developer, non-developer and ops usage examples.