 Welcome to this new series of videos from GitLab called Git in GIFs. Over the course of this series, we're going to take a look at both the basics of Git, as well as some of the details behind how Git actually works. And all of that is an effort to help everyone understand Git even better. My name is Brennan O'Leary, and you can find me on Twitter at O'Leary Crew. I'm a senior developer evangelist for GitLab, and I've been using Git for years. But this year is particularly special because it's the 15th anniversary of Git, the first commit to Git in Git was made in April of 2005. Of course, Git was first designed to be the source code management tool for the Linux kernel, but since then over the last 15 years, Git has evolved into being the universal choice for source code management, and it's so universal, in fact, that even Microsoft uses Git today for Windows. And a lot of other things have changed since 2005 as well. The Facebook got to be three characters more efficient, Netflix got to stop worrying about scratch DVDs, and lots of other technology that we take for granted today didn't even exist. It's hard to imagine my life without my iPhone, Instagram, AWS, and of course, Git. But the problem is Git can still be really difficult to understand. I myself work for a company with Git in its name, yet I still find myself going back to the evergreen content that XKCD published about how to understand and use Git, and more importantly troubleshoot Git when you get into trouble, more often than I would like to admit. And that's not the end of it. Git is only one of the many tools that seem to be required these days for developing and operationalizing software. It can get quickly overwhelming when we feel like we have to know all of these different tools. So that's where the idea for Git and GIFs came in. I want to be able to make Git more accessible for everyone, and at its core, Git is, believe it or not, pretty simple. But it takes an understanding of those basic building blocks of Git in order to gain that appreciation for the simplicity among all the complexity. I've been privileged to walk that journey in my career, and I want to share some of that knowledge in easy to consume videos with lots and GIFs and memes just for fun. And along that way, I hope that an understanding of Git will help everyone, developers, operators, everywhere, deliver code with less stress and more overall awesomeness. When it comes to a lot of buzzwords around DevOps, I'm a firm believer that breaking down their problems into the most simple form and making them approachable is how we can all help each other level up together. And well, in the end, that's how I can help myself realize the mission that is both Git Labs and my personal mission, allowing everyone to contribute. Because when we all contribute, we're able to go so much further than we can on our own. So stay tuned. There'll be lots more where this came from, and I'll be adding Git and GIFs videos all year long.