git

Guidance last updated: 16 October 2026

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Usage

Git is provided by the operating system and can be used without loading a module:

$ git --version
git version 2.52.0

After connecting to Stanage (see Establishing a SSH connection), start an interactive session:

salloc

You can load a specific version with one of the following commands:

module load git/2.52.0-GCCcore-15.2.0
module load git/2.50.1-GCCcore-14.3.0
module load git/2.49.0-GCCcore-14.2.0
module load git/2.45.1-GCCcore-13.3.0
module load git/2.42.0-GCCcore-13.2.0
module load git/2.41.0-GCCcore-12.3.0-nodocs
module load git/2.38.1-GCCcore-12.2.0-nodocs

module load git/2.50.1-GCCcore-14.3.0
module load git/2.49.0-GCCcore-14.2.0
module load git/2.42.0-GCCcore-13.2.0
module load git/2.38.1-GCCcore-12.2.0-nodocs

Git training and help resources

The software carpentry project offers numerous lessons including “Version Control with Git”.
The University of Sheffield Research Software Engineers regularly run a “git & GitHub through GitKraken - from Zero to Hero!” course.

Installation notes

git was installed using Easybuild, build details can be found in $EBROOTGIT/easybuild with a given module loaded.