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20 years of Git
Twenty years ago, Git was born. How did this unlikely "information manager" take over the world?
It’s actually a pretty fascinating method of collaboration - it is massively scalable, highly distributed, local first, capable of fine grained discussion of patches, cryptographically securable, etc. The Bitkeeper tool was developed specifically for the kernel's use case to try to build a version control system that worked for this workflow and Linus did like it, but the licensing they wanted to use didn’t vibe with the community it was built for. They weren’t things like git commit, they were very low level database tools like write-tree and commit-tree( this changed a few weeks into the project, when everything started begin prefixed with git-).
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