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As of April 2016, GitHub reports having more than 14 million users and more than 35 million repositories, making it the largest host of source code in the world. Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for development of the Linux kernel, with other kernel developers contributing to its initial development, Its current maintainer since 2005 is Junio Hamano.
As a distributed revision control system it is aimed at speed, data integrity, and support for distributed, non-linear workflows. It is primarily used for software development, but it can be used to keep track of changes in any files. Git is a version control system (VCS) for tracking changes in computer files and coordinating work on those files among multiple people. The source version of Unreal Engine 4 is located on a website called GitHub a web-based Git or version control repository. How to download the Source version of Unreal Engine 4 The first one and most commonly used is the Launcher or Binary version which we already covered, and the other is the Source version which we will cover in this tutorial. As we mentioned in our previous tutorial UE4 can be downloaded in two different versions.