Historically, centralized version control systems such as Subversion (SVN), CVS and Perforce have been utilized to manage source code. Over the last ten years, development teams have shifted to a more advanced model: distributed version control systems. The most popular tool of this type is Git. Distributed version control systems provide more speed, flexibility and power, and are a better fit for the fast-paced nature of a Scrum team.

This presentation will provide a history of Git, compares it to traditional centralized version control systems, and gets under the covers to outline how Git works from a technical perspective.