Git is not GitHub

• Free

• Open Source

• Multiplatform

• Version Control System

Git CLI(Command-Line Interface)

for real programmers

GitHub Client for Windows

for the ones too lazy to learn the command-line interface

Alternatives to Git

SVN vs git

• CVS
• SVN
• Mercurial

• Distributed revision control and source code

management (SCM) functionality of Git

• Web-based and desktop graphical interface
• Both free and paid plans for users account
  
• Public repository browsing
• User profile(containing basic user data,
  

followers/following/starts lists ecc..)

What does it offer?

User homepage on GitHub

Linux repository on GitHub

Linux repo last week overview

GitHub launched a new program on 7 October 2014:
The Student Developer Pack. 
The company is working in partnership with Bitnami,
DigitalOcean, DNSimple, HackHands, Namecheap,
Orchestrate, Stripe, Travis CI and Unreal Engine to
provide students free access to their tools.

Alternatives to GitHub

Bitbucket : is a web-based hosting service for projects that use
either Mercurial or Git revision control systems. It offers not
only commercial plans but also free accounts with an
unlimited number of private repositories     
SourceForge: It was the first to offer software developers
to control and manage free and open-source software
development to control and manage free open-source
projects

Useful links

• Git official website
  

• Git training for beginners