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-===== GIT repository =====
+===== Gerber =====
-GIT is one of a group of publicly accessible repositories for software, firmware, and documentation which implement 'versioning'.  Versioning keeps track of changes to files and let's one follow those changes, revert to previous versions, and create branches so that varieties of the code can be made, and also merge branches back into the main branch.
+A Gerber is a 2D binary vector image that describes every single layer of the PCB design. For instance, one Gerber describes the silk screen while the other describes the top, copper layer.
+===== GIT repository =====
-Wiki entry: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_%28software%29]]
+Git is a popular version control system primarily used for managing software source code, but is also used for managing firmware, documentation... Versioning keeps track of changes to files and lets one follow those changes, revert to previous versions, create branches so that varieties of the code can be made, and also merge branches together again.
-SourceForge is another such web based versioning repository and should be familiar to MERG members as the home of JMRI: [[http://jmri.sourceforge.net]],
+Git works using repositories, which can be entirely local on your computer, **or** linked to remote repositories on sites such as [[https://github.com|GitHub]], Gitlab, [[https://sourceforge.net|SourceForge]], and many others. [[https://github.com/MERG-DEV|MERG]] and [[https://github.com/JMRI|JMRI]] both use GitHub. Linking to remote repositories allows changes to be shared.
-The most popular web based Git repository is currently GitHub [[https://github.com]]; although there are plenty of other web, intranet and local based Git applications to choose from.
+Wiki entry: [[wp>Git|Git Software]]
-Comparison between SourceForge vs GitHub: [[http://recomparison.com/comparisons/101554/sourceforge-vs-github/]]
+[[http://recomparison.com/comparisons/101554/sourceforge-vs-github/|Comparison between SourceForge and GitHub]]
 To help understand how Git may be helpful to MERG here is a beginners article on GitHub: