Git was created by Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, in April 2005. With his dry wit, he has affectionately called the tool the information manager from hell. In an interview with the Linux Foundation, Linus mentioned that he felt source-control management was just about the least interesting thing in the computing world (https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/10-years-of-git-an-interview-with-git-creator-linus-torvalds/). Nevertheless, he created the tool after a disagreement between the Linux kernel developer community and BitKeeper, the proprietary system they were using at the time.
What does the name Git stand for? In British English slang, a Git is an insult denoting an unpleasant, annoying, childish ...
