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LinuxNews March 12, 2026 2 min read

Linus Torvalds Creates Git in 10 Days After a Licensing Dispute

When kernel developers lost free access to the proprietary BitKeeper in April 2005, Torvalds responded by writing an entirely new version control system himself — Git's first commit landed within days.

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FreeBSDNews March 2, 2026 2 min read

FreeBSD Completes Its Migration from Subversion to Git

The base system's source repository moved to Git in December 2020, following the documentation repo by weeks and preceding the ports tree by several months.

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