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Git ≠ GitHub

It’s still the case that some people use the terms Git and GitHub interchangeably so it’s important to understand that these are strongly related but critically different.

Git is a version control system that lets you manage and keep track of your source code history. See our page on Git integration.

GitHub is a commercial hosting service owned by Microsoft that provides a Git repositories as a SaaS solution. Microsoft also provide GitHub Enterprise which is a service equivalent to the SaaS offering which is installed on-premises in a customer’s data center.

See Watch this pageshort video for a description of the differences between Git and GitHub.