Git Basics
Git is a free, open-source distributed version control system designed for tracking changes in source code. It allows users to save multiple versions of their projects, making it easy to revert to previous states. GitHub serves as a platform for hosting repositories, enabling collaboration and backup of project history.
- ▪Git is a version control system that tracks changes in source code during software development.
- ▪Users can save an unlimited number of project versions and revert to any of them as needed.
- ▪GitHub is a repository hosting platform that allows users to back up their project history and collaborate with others.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/csm18/git-basics-2k9b |
| Publication time | Wed, 20 May 2026 02:21:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-20T02:34:58.982Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-20T02:34:58.982Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 1590922) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } csm Posted on May 20 Git Basics #git #tutorial Formal Definition Git is a free, open-source distributed version control system (VCS) designed to track changes in source code during software development. In English A tool that can save the state of our project,from adding a semicolon to a file, to writing hundreds of lines of code.
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