Amazon.com description: Product Description: Git is an open-source version control system known for its speed, stability, and distributed collaboration model. Originally created in 2006 to manage the entire Linux kernel, Git now boasts a comprehensive feature set, an active development team, and several free hosting communities. Git was designed from the ground up, paying little attention to the existing standards of centralized versioning systems. So, if you’re coming from an SVN or CVS background, try to forget everything you know about version control before reading this guide.