🔗 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful.

Twenty years ago today, Linus Torvalds made the very first commit to Git, the information manager from hell.

Over these last 20 years, Git went from a small, simple, personal project to the most massively dominant version control system ever built.

I have personally had a hell of a ride on this particular software roller coaster.

I started using Git for something you might not imagine it was intended for, only a few months after it’s first commit. I then went on to cofound GitHub, write arguably the most widely read book on Git, build the official website of the project, start the annual developer conference, etc - this little project has changed the world of software development, but more personally, it has massively changed the course of my life.

I thought it would be fun today, as the Git project rolls into it’s third decade, to remember the earliest days of Git and explain a bit why I find this project so endlessly fascinating.

Enjoy Kiril and I drinking wine and building the very first commit of Git, exploring what it could do from the very beginning.