Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/LinusTorvalds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinusTorvalds</span></a> built <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Git" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Git</span></a> in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years<br>In a mere 10 days, he developed a working version of Git, which was first committed on April 7, 2005. Of course, he'd been thinking about it for a while. BitKeeper conflict had been brewing almost since the start. In a recent GitHub interview, <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Torvalds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torvalds</span></a> had been facing a question, "How do I do something that works even better than BitKeeper does but doesn't do it the way BitKeeper does it?" <br><a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-built-git-in-10-days-and-never-imagined-it-would-last-20-years/?utm_source=changelog-news" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">zdnet.com/article/linus-torval</span><span class="invisible">ds-built-git-in-10-days-and-never-imagined-it-would-last-20-years/?utm_source=changelog-news</span></a></p>