GitHub.com

Github is a platform for hosting and collaborating on Git repositories.

Glossary

• git: an open source, distributed version-control system

• commit: a Git object, a snapshot of your entire repository compressed into a SHA

• branch: a lightweight movable pointer to a commit

• clone: a local version of a repository, including all commits and branches

• remote: a common repository on GitHub that all team members use to exchange their changes

• fork: a copy of a repository on GitHub owned by a different user

• pull request: a place to compare and discuss the differences introduced on a branch with reviews, comments, integrated tests, and more

• HEAD: representing your current working directory, the HEAD pointer can be moved to different branches, tags, or commits when using git checkout