“Linux was ‘just’ a reimplementation of Unix. Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder.” Not that Torvalds really wanted to write a new source control management (SCM) system.

In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is ...

Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux Microsoft isn't the only company that's interested in scaling Git.