Git began life when the Linux kernel team sought a highly performant, distributed and robust version control platform for developers worldwide. This is an important tool in the development pipeline, allowing new code from multiple developers to be pulled together with robust protections from corruption.
Finding nothing suitable, Linus Torvalds wrote his own – after all, what else would Linus do? He began on April 3rd 2005 and released it on April 7th.
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