fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (GUI) Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel. Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. This package provides the git graphical user interface. If aspell is installed, it can check the spelling of commit messages as the user types.