Have you ever come across these two terms and wondered what the difference is? Lets try to understand them together.
Git is an application that comes installed in mac and linux. On windows you get an installer and make the installation.
Git is simply an interface, it is used by developers to save changes on codes and to write those changes to github. With this incase you mess up with the code its possible to revert back to the initial code.
Well the files or changes are not saved automatically, you will need a terminal/command line interface, git has a terminal called gitbash.
Github is a website, which can be accessed world wide. This is a platform that is used by developers to post their work and to get codes from other developers. in short its a community platform for developers.
When you save code in your local laptop you push the code from git to Github hence other people can access and use it. If you want to get other developers work you pull the code from github.
Here are some commands for simple operations on git:
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