No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Is git-scm.com legit or a scam?
Official Git version control site with an 18-year-old domain, clean scans, and confirmed legitimacy across developer references.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The page content matches the well-known official Git project homepage, describing the free open-source version control system with links to documentation and downloads. The domain is over 17 years old and registered to Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., which aligns with the project's known ownership. No antivirus engines flagged the site, browser blocklists are clean, and the hosting IP shows zero abuse reports. Our research found no scam complaints and positive confirmation from independent review sites that the site is legitimate. The visual analysis confirms a fully rendered, authentic official site with no clone or phishing indicators.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
No scam visual patterns detected
This is the clean, fully-rendered official Git website (git-scm.com) with no scam indicators visible.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for git-scm.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Official Git website: 'Git is a free and open source distributed version control system' (git-scm.com homepage)
- Domain registered since 2008 (6522+ days old) to Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. via Gandi SAS
- GitHub repo git/git-scm.com: 'This is the repository for the git-scm.com site'
- Wikipedia lists git-scm.com as the official website for Git
- Scamadviser: 'git-scm.com has an average to good trust score' and 'Very Likely Safe'
- No scam, complaint, or malware reports found; Reddit discussions treat it as the standard download source
- git-scm.co exists separately and appears unrelated (GitLab login page)
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, It seems that git-scm.com is legit and safe to use and not a scam website."
Registered to Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. via Gandi SAS (WHOIS data)
Our research found no scam reports or complaints about git-scm.com. Independent review sites rate the domain as legitimate and safe, consistent with its long history as the official Git project site registered to the Software Freedom Conservancy.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed ((2026-04-20).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://git-scm.com/
- 2200https://git-scm.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on git-scm.com and not a lookalike like g-it-scm.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on git-scm.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- git-scm.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 95/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. git-scm.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 81 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- git-scm.com is 17.9 years old, registered on 7/23/2008 through Gandi SAS. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report git-scm.com as clean.
- No. git-scm.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- git-scm.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- We cache results for 24 hours. Signed-in MalwareTips members can trigger a manual rescan at any time using the "Rescan" button on the report page, which re-runs every check from scratch and refreshes this page.
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