@aurora.algorithm: How many days did it take Linus to write Git? Linus Torvalds says Git "really came together in just about ten days or so", though he'd been mulling over the ideas for a while. He wrote it for the Linux kernel, which had used the proprietary BitKeeper for three years until its free version was withdrawn in April 2005, and he found nothing else fast enough. Git's first commit, on April 7, 2005, calls it "the information manager from hell", and nine days later Linux moved into Git with the commit message "Let it rip!". Today GitHub, which is built on Git, serves more than 225 million developers (GitHub Octoverse 2026). Sources: Linus Torvalds, "Kernel SCM saga..", linux-kernel mailing list, 6 April 2005. Jonathan Corbet, "The kernel and BitKeeper part ways", LWN.net, 6 April 2005. Jennifer Cloer, "10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds", Linux.com, 6 April 2015. Git's first commit e83c5163 (github.com/git/git). Linux's first Git commit 1da177e4 (github.com/torvalds/linux). GitHub, "Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents", 28 October 2026 (github.blog). GitHub Docs, "About GitHub and Git" (docs.github.com). Photos: Linus Torvalds by Beraldo Leal (CC BY 2.0). Git logo by Jason Long (CC BY 3.0). Tux by Larry Ewing and The GIMP, Simon Budig and Garrett LeSage. BitKeeper logo from the BitKeeper source (github.com/bitkeeper-scm/bitkeeper), Apache License 2.0, Copyright 2016 BitMover, Inc.; shown to name the product. GitHub mark from GitHub's Octicons (MIT License, Copyright GitHub Inc.); GitHub is a trademark of GitHub, Inc. Photos cropped, cut out or colour-adjusted by us. Music: "Electro Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Narration: AI voice (ElevenLabs). Affiliate link, I earn a commission: https://try.elevenlabs.io/aurora-algorithm #git #linux #linustorvalds #programming #softwareengineering

Aurora Algorithm

Open In TikTok:

Region: CA

Sunday 08 November 2026 05:19:12 GMT