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Git is to GitHub what e-mail is to Gmail. GitHub is a specific service that offers git hosting and some extra goodies. As for what is part of what, anything yo
by mikeash 9y ago
Git is to GitHub what e-mail is to Gmail. GitHub is a specific service that offers git hosting and some extra goodies.
As for what is part of what, anything you do with the ‘git’ command is part of git. Anything you have to do on github.com is not.
- abhishekjha 9y ago>Anything you have to do on github.com is not Just to be clear we can create a branch on github as well as on git though I am not forced to do so on github. This maybe confusing for a beginner as both provide branching.
- mikeash 9y agoYeah, I nearly said “anything you do on github.com,” but then remembered there are things you can do both ways.
- jgtrosh 9y agoUnless you install GitHub's hub and alias `git` to `hub` as suggested in the install doc—then some of what you can do in Git is GitHub specific