Git

Git is a software that any developer can master fairly easily, but provides a truly game-changing experience in terms of managing coding workflow. Here are a few ways Git might prove useful to you. 

1. It’s a Top Performer – Among similar softwares, Git offers the best algorithms to optimize performance. Its standout feature is its branching model, which allows for frictionless context switching, a feature-based workflow and disposable experimentation.
2. It’s  Small and Fast – With all operations performed locally, Git can offer a huge speed advantage compared to centralized systems and its built to be able to handle large repositories with ease. 
3. The Staging Area and Index – Another standout feature, this allows Git users to review commits before completion. it’s possible to quickly stage some of your files and commit them without committing all of the other modified files in your working directory or having to list them on the command line during the commit.
4. Security – The content of all files as well as the true relationships between files and directories, versions, tags and commits, all of these objects in the Git repository are secured with a cryptographically secure hashing algorithm called SHA1. Code stored in Git is protected from both accidental and malicious changes with a fully traceable history.
5. It’s the Industry Standard – Git is the most widely used source-code management tool, according to the Eclipse Foundation. No matter where you work in the tech industry, you’re likely to encounter it. 
6. Flexibility and Versatility – The software is designed to handle the smallest and largest of code projects. It supports various kind of nonlinear development workflows and is compatible with many existing systems and protocols.
7. It’s Open Source – For more than a decade, users from around the world have worked on regularly updating Git to add requested features and reduce any and all errors and bugs. This means the software is totally free, so you can try it out for yourself without any risk.

What is the Difference Between Git and GitHub?

Based on the name, you might be wondering what the relationship is between Git and Github. As we’ve discussed Git is a software, designed to be a high quality version control system. On the other hand, GitHub is a cloud-based hosting service designed as a Git repository. Remember when we discussed developers uploading their repository to online databases to allow others to download and view their files? Well, GitHub is that service they upload them to! 

Github, unlike Git, is exclusively cloud-based, and a for-profit service provider one has to pay for to use. It expands upon Git’s functionality to provide programmers with built-in control and task-management tools. Through Github you can share your code with others. You can do this so others on your team can make revisions on edits, working together in real time, or, as a means of displaying your code, akin to a portfolio. Github is a great place to find practice projects to complete and connect with the coding community!