What is Git? Git is a directory content tracker (i.e. it lets you keep track of the contacts of directories as they change over time). It was developed originally by Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux) in 2005. What do we use it for? Until a couple of weeks ago, we were using Subversion for keeping track of our source code. We’re now about a third of the way into converting everything to git (a surp