10 Git features we love Git is a distributed version control system that strives to help groups of developers to collaborate on software projects. Version control systems are a great way to keep track of all the different versions of a development project as well as every change made to them. With this tool, you can easily revert to a previous version, compare changes or keep tabs on who last modified a file. When it comes to version control systems, our team thinks very highly of Git and we hope, by the end of this article, you do too.