Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub.

Git is a distributed version control system, originally written by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for and with help from the Linux kernel community.

Jack Wallen shows how to use the .gitconfig file for global git configurations and a more efficient developer setup.

Git is a version control system that tracks code changes and is used to drive GitHub. Other Git hosts—like GitLab and Bitbucket—are available, but GitHub is by far the most popular.