Please consult our CONTRIBUTING guidelines for information about contributing to the documentation and code contained within this repo using git.
You probably have heard of git through the popular git-repository hosting web-service GitHub. GitHub (the the hosting service) is to git (the open-source version control software) what the internet is to computers—git is used locally to track incremental development and modifications to a collection of files, and GitHub gets those changes to serve as a synchronized, common access point. GitHub also has social aspects, like tracking who changed what and why. There are other git hosting services like GitLab which are similar to GitHub but offer slightly different features.