US EditionGit turns 20 as we celebrate decades of open-source software distribution
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I’m Now Better Known For Git Than Linux, But Git Was Never That Important For Me: Creator Linus Torvalds
Git might the most popular version control system for code in the world, but its creator didn’t have such grandiose plans for it... The post I’m Now Better Known For Git Than Linux, But Git Was Never That Important For Me: Creator Linus Torvalds appeared first on OfficeChai.
20 years ago, Linux inventor Linus Torvalds personally started to solve the problem with the version control system Bitkeeper and developed Git. The version control system is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Bitkeeper's stopping his community license 20 years ago had far-reaching consequences. The community license allowed developers to use Bitkeepers for free for open source projects. The most popular was the Linux kernel.
Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds
Exactly twenty years ago, on April 7, 2005, Linus Torvalds made the very first commit to a new version control system called Git. Torvalds famously wrote Git in just ten days after Linux kernel developers lost access to their proprietary tool, BitKeeper, due to licensing disagreements. In fact, in that first commit, he’d written enough of Git to use Git to make the commit! Git’s unconventional and decentralized design—nowadays ubiquitous and see…
Today, 20 years ago, Linus Torvalds git published. Since then, it has been omnipresent and unthinkable from software development.
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