Git is an open-source project created by Linus Torvalds in 2005. Git is used widely due to its maturity and practical usage. To this date, Git still can be seen used in numerous amount of software projects for version control. Git works well on a large scale of operating systems and IDE's. This is so as it has a structured architecture, which rather than having everything related to the version history of the software stored in one place it is stored in everyone related to the project.
Git provides the function to branch, merge and compare the past versions of software projects. This allows the optimization for performance as all the structured data stores inside Git provide structured details on all the common attributes related to the source code file trees and the changes done to it whether it is when or what is done to the code.
Unlike the usual, GIT is not affected by the name of the files as it does not simply determine the files by just that but instead determines what is inside the file content itself. It is commonly known that source code files are renamed, split, and rearranged as such there will be a situation where file names will be named the same and so forth thus causing a dilemma but this problem is excluded in Git.
Git has been integrated with a cryptographically secure hashing algorithm called SHA1. This is what boasts its integrity when managing source code while making sure the content of the files and directories, tag versions, and so on remains their relationships. While this is done so it also provides protections towards accidental and malicious changes with its highly traceable history.
The scale of the projects does not matter to Git as its ability to support various kinds of inconsistent development workflows with high efficiency and compatibility with many equipped existing systems and protocols. With its traceability in its history, the scale does not matter.
As Git allows efficient progression in the documentation. As the developers don’t have to manage or worry errors occur when managing the files due to its accurate way of managing the files based on its content instead of its name making minimal errors.
One of the major attributes of git is its flexibility as it is suitable in handling multiple local branches which ultimately equates to being able to handle large-scale projects. While able to handle multiple local branches it also allows the different code versions simultaneously which is independent to be shared among developers which allows them to work separately on their task without affecting the work of others nor take extra steps when managing their version
With git there comes the ability to trace back all the changes done to the source code and before it is being changed the name, the date will be saved to make it convenient to trace back, WIth the 2.0 release in Git when committing changes to the source code descriptive messages can add to it.
With Git it offers local storage to each developer with its own history committed by the user. With it, it is much easier to lessen team members or increase team members when required as other team members can work on their tasks while committing the changes to their local repositories which are independent.