Frantically-cobbled: from April 3 2005, announced April 6 and becoming self-hosting on April 7 by Linus Torvalds to replace BitKeeper after they dumped Linux (the public announcement of BitKeeper scrapping the free version was April 5, but the writing was on the wall for a month or two before that).
Evidence of the rapid initial development can still be seen in the famously...quirky...CLI syntax.
Evidence of the rapid initial development can still be seen in the famously...quirky...CLI syntax.