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.
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.
Wait, git is ONLY 10 years old?
That article is from 2015
