git is a tool that tracks the history of software projects as they change over time. GitHub.com is a website used to manage git repositories. In this screencast,Mike discusses how git structures project histories and demonstrates how to review the history of projects hosted on GitHub.com.

If you’d like to learn how to navigate git projects outside of GitHub.com (or you’re interested in a more powerful approach), check out this related screencast on traversing git histories using the git command-line interface.

Tools

• Any web browser, pointed at https://github.com