You’ve heard about this version control system called Git. Maybe some of your colleagues are using it. But is it here to stay, or just a fad?

We can best answer that by looking at what Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCS) like Git bring to the world of programming and authoring. There are a myriad of benefits ranging from the distributed nature of Git without a central point of failure, to its focus on working locally. These benefits are made possible by Git efficiently communicating over the network only when asked and its Unix-like compositional architecture.

We’ll follow that up with a look at what GitHub, a web service focused on amplifying Git for easier collaboration, brings to this rapidly changing domain of software creation tools.

This talk will enable you to sling the basic Git and GitHub lingo around like an old hat when you get back to the office.