This document summarizes an ALT.NET meetup presentation about Git and its core concepts:
1) Git is a distributed version control system originally created by Linus Torvalds to manage the Linux kernel source code as a replacement for BitKeeper.
2) Git uses a content-addressable filesystem to store objects like blobs (file contents), trees, commits, and tags in a compressed database for versioning code and files efficiently with deltas.
3) The basic Git workflow involves making local changes, staging files to the index, and committing snapshots of the changes to the repository along a branch lineage with parent commits.