BitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 daysBitKeeper, Linux, and licensing disputes: How Linus wrote Git in 14 daysMay 23, 2024 On April 3rd, 2005, Linus cut a Linux kernel release candidate, 2.6.12-rc2. The release candidate itself wasn’t too interesting — in Linus’s words "The diffstat output tells the story: this is a lot of very small changes, ie tons of small cleanups and bug fixes.” — but would become significant for what it marked:
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