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This video, like every video in the course, I guess is completely optional.

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But this video in particular, I want to focus on the history of it just for a couple of minutes.

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It's kind of fascinating, in my opinion, but it's not super relevant to learning how to use Git.

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So no big deal if you skip it.

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But let's do it.

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Let's talk about the creation of Git.

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So there's a very famous developer named Linus Torvalds.

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It's probably closer to Linus Torvalds, but the Americanized version is Linus Torvalds.

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He is truly a legendary engineer.

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He is the creator, the main developer behind Linux, but also Git.

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So very prolific, very talented and he's always been very pro open source projects.

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Meaning I'm not familiar with the term code bases that are available for others to see and collaborate

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on and and tweak and try their own things with instead of hiding code behind some sort of paywall,

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making it all secret.

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Anyway, at some point he was working on Linux with a team and they were using a different version control

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system called Bit Keeper.

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This is the Wikipedia page for Git.

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So Bit Keeper was a tool that did basically what Git helps you do manage versions.

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However, at some point I guess there was a fight, a disagreement, and the owners, the creators of

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Bit Keeper did not allow the Linux team to use it for free anymore.

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They wanted to charge money.

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They, I guess, remove the license.

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So this was controversial.

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It spurred the creation of a couple of version control systems, including Mercurial.

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But for our purposes, what we care about is that Linus was frustrated, he was -- off about that.

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He wanted a free version control system that had features that he desired, and at the time nothing

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fit that bill.

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There were paid services that had those features and they were free ones that just didn't have the features

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he wanted.

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So he wanted to make something fast and open source.

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And that's actually exactly what he did.

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He just said, Screw it, I'm going to do it on my own.

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And he spent most of April 2005 just writing code to make it himself.

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It's a very impressive effort.

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So he was unhappy with the existing tools.

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He got to work.

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He said, I'll do it myself.

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And that turned in to Git in just a matter of days.

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He had the basic functionality done.

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Now that doesn't mean that it's a one man show and that he's in charge of get to this day.

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There have been many collaborators.

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In fact, he handed over development of Git after I think maybe the first month or two to some other

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developers anyway.

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But basically he saw a need for a product that didn't exist as a free, open source tool.

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He created it himself and now it's a huge hit.

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Everyone uses it, right?

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15 years later, over 90% of all developers worldwide use Git on a daily basis.

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Now, one interesting note is about the naming the name Git in development.

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Linus Torvalds referred to it as the stupid content tracker, just as his own personal name.

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But eventually he settled on the name Git and according to the official source code for Git, you can

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view this online.

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There are a couple of explanations for the meaning of the name Git, depending on your mood.

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So it's either a random three letter combination that is pronounceable.

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It's always good and not actually used by any common Unix command.

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The second option the meaning of Git is stupid, contemptible and despicable.

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Simple.

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Then we have Global Information Tracker.

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That's the more corporate cleaned up version.

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Git git global information tracker.

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That's for when you're in a good mood and it actually works for you.

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Angels sing in a light suddenly fills the room and then when things break and it doesn't work, you

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can see it is gosh darn idiotic truckload of you know what?

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Oh, I always feel like such a goody two shoes in these videos.

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I don't want to lead to any angry reviews and commenters, but this isn't the source code, right?

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I didn't put this in there myself.

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That's in the official source for Git.

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So the last note that I think is kind of funny in British slang, it means an unpleasant person.

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And Linus Torvalds sarcastically quipped that he actually named it after himself.

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He said, I'm an egotistical bastard and I name all the projects after myself.

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First Linux Linus.

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Now Git joking that he's an unpleasant person or maybe he's a gosh darn idiotic truckload of you know

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what?

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Okay, so just kind of a fun little bit of history.

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It's always amazing when one person goes about trying to solve a problem and they succeed, and then

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it just becomes incredibly widely used and widespread.

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That's exactly what happened with Git.

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It started with one guy hunkered down somewhere.

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I mean, incredibly talented developer, right?

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It's not just like me or you most likely, but a very talented developer, just taking on existing tools

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and trying to improve upon them.

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With a free, open source tool that now is everywhere.