please what is the meaning of git n mecurial

[nnamdi]

git and mecurial what are dey used for please i would like to know

[k33bz]

have you tried googling that?

[halitech]

open a terminal and type


man git

man mercurial

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Git: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
Mercurial: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial_(software)

They are revision control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control) software, and in particular, distributed revision control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_revision_control) software.

Basically they allow programmers to keep track of changes to the source code of an application.

[k33bz]

open a terminal and type


man git

man mercurial

that would only work if he had it installed

[raymondh]

[QUOTE=halitech;7908629]open a terminal and type


man git

man mercurial[/QUOTE

@ OP

Are you talking about this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)
http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Programming/Version-Control/Mercurial-9329.shtml

EDIT : I type so slow

[nnamdi]

thanks everyone seems i forgot to tell u i did all that wiki, google, man but still did not get any that made sense to me anyway i hope to understand better that is if u got the patiences to explain lol thanks anyway

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This might help: http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/

Unless you're a developer it's probably not something you need to worry about though.