<li>Git is a free distributed version control system (DVCS), used for source code management (SCM)</li>
<li>Git operates on a decentralized architecture, so every git working directory has the complete history</li>
<li>Git was initiallydesigned and created by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development</li>
<li>EPFL has a GIT repository service (<ahref="http://c4science.ch/">http://c4science.ch/</a>)</li>
<li>EPFL has two GIT repository service <ahref="http://c4science.ch/">http://c4science.ch/</a> and <ahref="http://gitlab.epfl.ch/">http://gitlab.epfl.ch/</a></li>
</ul>
<p><ahref="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control_system">wikipedia: revision control system</a><br>
<h3id="Interactive-session-on-manipulating-git">Interactive session on manipulating git<aclass="anchor-link"href="#Interactive-session-on-manipulating-git">¶</a></h3><ul>
<li>installing git</li>
<li>creating a repository on <em>c4science</em></li>
<li>creating a repository on <em>gitlab.epfl.ch</em></li>