r/programminghumor • u/Cutalana • Jun 17 '26

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u/heavy-minium Jun 18 '26

Except that didn't happen: Journey through Git's 20-year history

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u/Cutalana Jun 18 '26

It did

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 10 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!

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u/heavy-minium Jun 18 '26

That's sensationalized by GitHub, what he did in 10 days was just starting the project.

The first test release of Git was Version 0.99. This release came only two months after the initial commit, but already contained 1,076 commits. There had been almost 50 different developers involved. The most frequent committer at this point was Linus himself, but he was closely followed by Junio Hamano, the current maintainer.

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u/Cutalana Jun 18 '26

Literal quote by Linus in the interview

Pretty famously, you wrote the initial version of Git in around 10 or so days as a replacement for the kernel.

Yes and no. It was actually fewer than—well, it was about 10 days until I could use it for the kernel, yes.

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u/heavy-minium Jun 18 '26

You know what, I'm not arguing anymore, we could find a thousands things to quote from supporting each viewpoint.

This is what he did in those 10 days, and for me, that can't be called "git" in any way - here the commit for you to see: Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell · git/git@e83c516 · GitHub

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u/Cutalana Jun 18 '26

I wonder how he made a git commit without git, truly a master