Difference Between GIT and GitHub

Git is free and Open source distributed version control system created to handle everything from small to extensive projects with speed and efficiency.

GitHub is a provider of internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It offers the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git, plus its features.

But according to a study a-lot of people do not know the difference between Git and GitHub. many of us thinks that Git and GitHub are same.

But this is not true. In this article i am going to list some of the differences between Git and GitHub.

1. Git is a command line tool, where GitHub is a graphical user interface.
2. Linux maintains Git, and Microsoft manages GitHub.
3. Git has no built-in user management system, But GitHub has its own User management system.
4. Git first released in 2005, but GitHub was launched in 2008.
5. Git can manage your code history, while GitHub is a hosting service that hosts your repositories.
6. Git is a software, but GitHub is a service.
7. Git is focused on version control and code sharing, while GitHub focused on centralised code hosting.
8. You can install Git in your local system, But GitHub is hosted on the web and can not install locally.

I hope this article will help to understand the difference between Git and GitHub. if you find it helpful then do share this article with your friends so that they also can read this and understand the differences.