Are Git and GitHub same?

The shortest answer to this question would be NO.

Many individuals who are new to development environment often misunderstand Git and GitHub to be the same platform. However, they both have some key differences to consider making them different and equally important. So, in this blog, I will be elaborating about those differences between them.

What is Git?

In short, Git is a distributed version control system that manages a development project’s source code history. Simplifying the words, Git allows individuals to track files present in any folder which is known as a repository. Also, it is capable of maintaining the history and tracking changes that have been made in the files.

Now, a question can arise on your mind, How can Git track the changes made in the files? So, to track the changes made in the files, Git has its own File Structure where every file is stored in a separate document and each file have their own unique hash. In such a case, we can consider Git as a persistent hash map which stores keys and values where keys comprise with hash and value comprise of the content of the files.

Moreover, Git can also be used locally in your PC without any internet connection which allows individuals to have full access to the files change history. So, rather than depending on the internet…