General Questions What is Git? Git is a distributed version control system developed by Junio Hamano and Linus Torvalds. Git does not use a centralized server. Git runs on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Darwin, Windows, Android and other operating systems. Why the 'Git' name? Quoting Linus: "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'Git'". ('git' is British sla