Expert Python Programming - Third Edition

Use Git if you can

Git is currently the most popular distributed version control system. It was created by Linus Torvalds for the purpose of maintaining versions of the Linux kernel when its core developers needed to resign from proprietary BitKeeper software that they used previously.

If you have not used any of the version control systems, then you should start with Git from the beginning. If you already use some other tools for version control, learn Git anyway. You should definitely do that, even if your organization is unwilling to switch to Git in the near future. Otherwise, you risk becoming a living fossil.

I'm not saying that Git is the ultimate and best DVCS. It surely has some disadvantages. Most of all, it is not an easy to use ...