Git distributed version control
Git, control de versiones distribuido
- Date
- 2005 · confidence high
- Place
- Linus Torvalds, Portland, Oregon, United States; GitHub in San Francisco (2008)
- Credited to
- Linus Torvalds; GitHub (Chris Wanstrath, Tom Preston-Werner, PJ Hyett)
- People
- 👤 Linus Torvalds1969–
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
System that records a project's full history in every copy and allows thousands of collaborators to branch and merge changes. With GitHub it became the social network of code.
What it led to
- Global collaboration in open source and the pull-request model
- GitHub as infrastructure and its acquisition by Microsoft
- AI coding assistants trained on public repositories
Built on
- Linux kernel1991
- BitKeeper
- CVS and Subversion
Made possible
- GitHub
- continuous integration
- GitHub Copilot