10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds [2015]
10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds [2015]
Ten years ago this week, the Linux kernel community faced a daunting challenge: They could no longer use their revision control system BitKeeper and no other Source Control Management (SCMs) met their needs for a distributed system. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, took the challenge into his o...
Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, took the challenge into his own hands and disappeared over the weekend to emerge the following week with Git.
Absolute madman. Need to invent a brand new version control system? “Ill just do it over the weekend”
That was only a very rough version. His original plan was to use it as a backend for other VCS. Torvalds handed over the maintainership of the project to Junio Hamano after about 4 months. Much of what we know today as git are contributions from him and others.
None of this is to say that Torvalds didn't invent it. He invented the content addressed object storage format. But it's important to understand the actual history of git's evolution.
Like a god damn software Jesus
Still a good read but this article is itself almost 10 years old.
Wait, git is ONLY 10 years old?
That article is from 2015
Yeah! and I'm still in my twenties okay! I'm not old, just like git
Wow, I had no idea. What else has this man created?
The story behind git is very dramatic. You should read it.
Aha! He wrote git!
I KNEW I saw that name somewhere before.
What? Linus Torvalds? Your mean the guy who wrote the Linux kernel?
He truly is our Lord and Saviour!
The weblink at the bottom to an Atlassian article is a dead link. Sounds about right for Atlassian I guess. Can't keep something running for 9 years.