Git is a distributed revision control system with a peer-to-peer architecture. As opposed to centralized version control systems with a client-server model, Git ensures that each working copy of a Git repository is its exact copy with complete revision history. This not only allows you to work on and contribute to projects without the need to have permission to push your changes to their official repositories, but also makes it possible for you to work with no network connection.
Red Hat Developer Toolset is distributed with Git 1.8.4. This version is more recent than the version included in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements. For a detailed list of changes, see Section A.4, “Changes in Git”.
In Red Hat Developer Toolset, the Git revision control system is provided as a collection of RPM packages and is automatically installed with the devtoolset-2-vc package as described in Section 1.5, “Installing Red Hat Developer Toolset”.
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The Red Hat Developer Toolset version of Git is only available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on 32-bit and 64-bit Intel and AMD architectures.