How to install git

Git is a distributed version control system used by most development teams. Development happens publicly, and releases are published by the project maintainers.

About the project

Git is distributed version control system used by most development teams. The maintainers own the project, choose releases, and publish their own documentation. This page records a few things worth knowing before you begin.

Governance sits with the project's own team. They decide what ships, how often it ships, and which platforms are supported.

How releases reach a machine

Packaging differs from project to project. Some publish to system repositories, some to their own index, some only as source archives that a build tool expects.

Platform requirements

Look at the supported versions before anything else. Projects narrow their platform range over time, and older systems can be dropped without much warning.

Checking the result

If the outcome differs from what you expected, the cause is nearly always resolution rather than the project itself — an older copy, a different channel, or a stale cache.

About these pages

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