Git is a distributed version control system designed for coordinating work among programmers. It was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel. GitHub, founded in 2008, provides hosting for software development using Git. Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018.

2. What is Git exactly?
ANSWER:
Git is a distributed version-control system for
tracking changes in source code during
software development. It is
designed for coordinating
work among programmers.
Commercial hosting companies such as
GitHub (founded in 2007), Bitbucket
(founded in 2010) and GitLab (founded in
2011) provides hosting for software
development using Git.

3. When was Git and GitHub launched?
ANSWER:
Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for
development of the Linux kernel.
Tom Preston-Werner, Chris
and PJ Hyett launched GitHub.com
on 10th April 2008.

4. Can you list some points on Git Vs GitHub?

6. Which language is Git and GitHub written in?
ANSWER:
C (git), Erlang language (gitHub)
Projects in GitHub are written numerous languages. Can you guess
the number?
ANSWER:
Million of open source projects on GitHub
are written in 337 programming languages, of
which JavaScript is most popular. There are
over 2.3 open source projects written in
JavaScript and 1 million in Python.

8. Which company acquires GitHub?
ANSWER:
Microsoft Corporation

9. Which cyber attack affected GitHub, and
lasted 5 days on 26th March 2015?
ANSWER:
DDoS, A distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS)
attack is a malicious attempt
to flood the targeted server with Internet
traffic.

10. Which version control system was used for development
of Linux kernel by Linus Torvalds before Git?
ANSWER:
Bitkeeper
Due to some license issues
which made the Bitkeeper unavailable, Linus
Torvalds went offline for a week wrote a
revolutionary new system from scratch called
Git.

11. When was the first Linux kernel released?
ANSWER:
65 kb
What was the size of the first ever Linux kernel?
ANSWER:
On 5th October 1991, he released
the first Linux Kernel. Needless to
say, this “little hobby project”
has changed the world of
computing.
It had just
10,239 lines of
code

12. Which is the most popular project on GitHub?
ANSWER:
Bootstrap
the world’s most popular
framework for building
responsive, mobile-first sites,
With BootstrapCDN and a template starter
page.

13. Recently GitHub has moved its snapshots of all
active public repositories to a vault in Norway ,
Can you guess the amount data of those
repositories?
ANSWER:
GitHub announced the
archiving plan last November
and on February 20 followed through with the
21 terabyte snapshot written to 186 reels of
film.

14. What are all
these?
What’s its
name?

15. This is called Mascot of GitHub
is a female cat with 5 octopus-like arms.
It was created by freelance
graphic designer Simon Oxley (who also designed Twitter’s
bird). They bought exclusive rights and named it Octocat. Since
then, several users have designed hundreds of variations of the
character.

16. Using which command can we update the
remote repository with changes in local
repositories?
ANSWER:
git push

17. Which is first command that you will run
when working with Git
ANSWER:
git init

18. Which is the first operating system in the
world?
ANSWER:
The first operating system
used for real work was GM-NAA I/O,
produced in 1956 by General
Motors' Research division for its IBM 704.

19. Thank
You