[cpburns2009]

Wait, why was this posted by Google? I thought Git was made by Linus Torvalds.

[hk__2]

Git was created by Linus Torvalds, but out of the 50k+ commits on the repo, only 250 or so are from him, with only 14 in the past 6 years. [1]

[1] https://github.com/git/git/graphs/contributors?from=2012-03-...

[sdesol]

Here is a more detailed analysis, which shows all contributors:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit...

These are contributions by Linus:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit...

and as you can see, his contributions, really tapered off after 2010, while contributions from Hamano remained steady from 2008 to present date, as shown below:

https://public.gitsense.com/insight/github?r=git/git#b%3Dgit....

[Semaphor]

> Linus Torvalds said in 2012 that one of his own biggest successes was recognizing how good a developer Hamano was on Git, and trusting him to maintain it.

[tgummerer]

It's because a Google employee implemented protocol v2, and wrote a post about it.

[euyyn]

Opensource though.