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In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is ...

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 ...