[Git][] is a popular distributed version control system.  It is used
by projects ranging from the [huge][linux] to the [tiny][gist],
including your very own [Software Carpentry][swc].

On the technical side, it offers [staging areas][staging],
[revisionist history][rewrite], and a simple [object
model][internals].

[Git]: http://git-scm.com/
[linux]: https://www.kernel.org/
[gist]: https://gist.github.com/
[swc]: http://software-carpentry.org/contrib/create.html
[staging]: http://git-scm.com/about/staging-area
[rewrite]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/user-manual.html#cleaning-up-history
[internals]: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Internals