Git
The version control a whole industry built its work on, from hell onward.
In 2005 Linus Torvalds wrote Git after BitKeeper fell through. The first commit calls it the information manager from hell.
Linus Torvalds, 2005
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Linus Torvalds wrote Git in 2005, after the free BitKeeper arrangement behind Linux kernel work fell apart. The first commit calls the result the information manager from hell, and the industry has been building on it ever since.
The bars are main from update-cache.c in that first version. The program reads the cache, locks an index, and records the paths you named. Contents are hashed and the hash becomes the name, which is why two people with the same objects share the same history.
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