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Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds

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  • Presented by Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux and Git

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Linus Torvalds discusses the creation, technical decisions, and twenty-year history of the Git version control system.

Twenty years ago, Linus Torvalds created the basis for Git in just 10 days, forever changing how developers collaborate on code. In this candid interview, Linus Torvalds discusses Git's unexpected journey from a Linux kernel management tool to the foundation of modern software development. Learn about the technical decisions, community contributions, and evolving philosophy behind the version control system that powers millions of projects. #Git #GitHub #SoftwareDevelopment Stay up-to-date on all things GitHub by connecting with us: YouTube: gh.io/subgithub Blog: github.blog X: twitter.com/github LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/github Insider newsletter: resources.github.com/newsletter/ Instagram: instagram.com/github TikTok: tiktok.com/@github About GitHub It’s where over 100 million developers create, share, and ship the best code possible. It’s a place for anyone, from anywhere, to build anything—it’s where the world builds software. github.com

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ontouchstarton Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Missing Semester of Your CS Education”

I watched this YouTube video Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds link to this video I was surprised that he only spent four months on it as a maintainer. What a great piece of work by a great software developer.
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sam_lowry_on Hacker News • Mentions

On “Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch”

> changing from SHA-1 to SHA-256 for greater security Linus has a different view, he referred to the SHA-256 migration as "pointless churn": link to this video SHA-1 is not broken enough to be a serious issue for git. The migration to SHA-256 has been forced by on git by clueless morons, and it is, in this very special way, similar to the master-main rename.
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conartist6on Hacker News • Mentions

On “I program without syntax highlighting”

Aha, found it. No you're right it is his own hacked up emacs fork, but he does also say that it lacks color. Found it in the video here: link to this video
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