History of Git?

10 years ago Linus Torvalds started writing code for a new distributed version control system on a Sunday and only a mere few days later, the world was given the gift of Git. Git has helped teams big and small work faster while becoming more distributed and has left its mark with cheap local branching, easier code review, flexible work flows and so much more. Over the last decade Git has seen exponential growth and has become the most popular version control system today.

In an April 2005 Git project announced & becomes self-hosting created by Linus Torvalds. April 2005 1st merge of multiple branches and July 2005 Junio Hamano takes over maintenance of Git project. In December 2005 Git 1.0 was released.

May 2007 Linus Torvalds gives Git talk at Google. February 2008 Original pull request and April 2008 GitHub site launched Founded by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, and PJ Hyett.