Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years

SJVN / Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Many programmers are young enough that they never knew a world without Git and the developer sites built around it, like GitHub and GitLab. You should be glad, very glad, that Linus Torvalds felt forced to create a better version control system (VCS). Before that, I used first-generation Source Control Management (SCM) systems such as Revision Control System (RCS), which was… painful. Then along came the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) in 1986, and then Subversion (SVN) in 2000. That same year saw BitKeeper, the once open-source VCS that was Linux's first SCM. Also: Microsoft at 50: Its incredible rise, 15 lost years, and stunning comeback - in 4 charts Before that, Torvalds had been content to keep Linux's code straight by hand. But, by 1999, as developer Larry McVoy observed, Torvalds was on the verge of burning out. The problem? You couldn't scale Torvalds. He needed the right tools to share the load. McVoy, through the answer, was his own SC ... Read full article.