Question

What is Git and explain the difference between Git and SVN?

Answer 1

Git is a source code management (SCM) tool which handles small as well as large projects with efficiency. It is basically used to store our repositories in remote server such as GitHub.

GIT	SVN
Git is a Decentralized Version Control Tool	SVN is a Centralized Version Control Tool
Git contains the local repo as well as the full history of the whole project on all the developers hard drive, so if there is a server outage , you can easily do recovery from your team mates local git repo.	SVN relies only on the central server to store all the versions of the project file
Push and pull operations are fast	Push and pull operations are slower compared to Git
It belongs to 3rd generation Version Control Tool	It belongs to 2nd generation Version Control tools
Client nodes can share the entire repositories on their local system	Version history is stored on server-side repository
Commits can be done offline too	Commits can be done only online
Work are shared automatically by commit	Nothing is shared automatically