Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub.

Tools like Flux and Argo CD are the linchpins that constantly sync Git state with live environments. Flux operates with a ...

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 ...

Torvalds and other Linux kernel developers created Git in 2005 as Linux's distributed version control system. It's also used by multiple major companies including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to ...

Git is a distributed version control system, originally written by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for and with help from the Linux kernel community.

“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.

So, What Is Git? Git—a distributed version control system (VCS)—launched in 2005, and was developed by Linux kernel creator, Linus Torvalds.