Git: distributed version control system

Git also is a general version control system that managers any files and directories and changes made to them. However, git stores and thinks about information in a very different way from Subversion. Under the distributed version control system, clients checkout a full mirror of a repository, not just the latest snapshot of the files. Every clone is a full backup of the data with a full history.

Files

Moving files: Unlike many other VCS systems, Git doesn’t explicitly track file movement. If you rename a file in Git, no metadata is stored in Git that tells it you renamed the file.