

It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git as well as adding more features for computer code. GitHub, on the other hand, is a web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It is intended to enforce coordination, collaboration, speed, and efficiency among developers.

Since Linus Torvalds (the famous creator of the Linux operating system kernel) created Git in 2005 for Linux kernel development, it has become the most widely used modern version control system in the world. They can also access or manipulate several parts of the code as they deem fit from different locations.

Every developer has the full history and control of their code locally or remotely. Unlike older centralized version control systems such as SVN and CVS, Git is distributed.
