5 years of Linux development in Git

5 years of Linux development in Git

[Christian Ludwig]

Dear kernel hackers & Git lovers,

some of you might have noticed already that today we celebrate 5 years
of Linux kernel development in Git. After looking for an alternative to
Bitkeeper, Linus came up with his own solution and wrote that new tool
he called Git. Exactly 5 years ago, Linus announced Linux-2.6.12-rc2  by
making the the very first commit into the official Linux kernel Git
tree. So we made a little movie to visualize the source code development
of Linux over these past 5 years of Git history.

The video was made with Gource, a source code visualization tool. Yes,
there are some bugs in the video, but we found the overall idea way too
cool to not share the result with you. You can find the video online in
different formats.

You can find a preview teaser on Youtube at

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTpM8hfl_E

The torrents are linked on the page.

We hope you enjoy the video and celebrate 5 years of Linux kernel
development in Git with us.


  - Christian 

PS: When answering, please cc me since I am not on the list.

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Re: 5 years of Linux development in Git

[Martin Nybo Andersen]

On Saturday 17 April 2010 00:20:02 Christian Ludwig wrote:
> Dear kernel hackers & Git lovers,
> 
> [...]
> 
> You can find a preview teaser on Youtube at
> 
>   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntTpM8hfl_E
> 
> The torrents are linked on the page.
> 
> We hope you enjoy the video and celebrate 5 years of Linux kernel
> development in Git with us.

That is one nice video. rtorrent is now fetching the 1080p version and will be 
seeding for at least a week.

> [...]

Not much to say about git that haven't already been said, except perhaps that 
it is now the main vcs at work and at home for me.

Congrats to all contributors!

-Tweek