About Git Support

Git is is a free and open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

The IDE's Git support enables you to perform versioning tasks directly from your project within the IDE. You can call Git commands on both files and directories in the Projects, Files and Favorites windows, in the IDE. The IDE also provides a graphical Diff Viewer, enabling you to compare file revisions, as well as supporting inline diff directly in the editor.

The advantages of a distributed revision control system like Git are:

Git Visualization Features

The IDE provides several file status information tools that simplify the process of working with version-controlled files, including:

Since Git is a distributed revision control system, you typically begin by cloning an external repository to work with. This clone is a complete copy of the repository including the revision history. You can clone this local copy as often as you like, and when you want to you can push your changes back to the original repository provided you have permissions, or export your changes and send them to the owner if you do not.

For further documentation on the Git support and Git itself, see the following resources:


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