Linus Torvalds said Git became self-hosting after about a day and reached its first Linux kernel commit after roughly ten days.

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"Linus Torvalds said Git became self-hosting after about a day and reached its first Linux kernel commit after roughly ten days."

Torvalds's timeline shows why 'weekend fix' is too reductive even though Git's usable implementation emerged extraordinarily quickly.

Source title 10 Years of Git: An Interview with Git Creator Linus Torvalds

Source authors The Linux Foundation

Source year 2015

Confidence high

Importance mid