The Stupid Content Tracker

For the past couple of months, I've been diving deep into it. After getting my head around a bunch of concepts, I stumbled upon an interesting fact: the same Finnish guy who created Linux also created Git.

Turns out, when BitKeeper (another version control system) got yanked away from him and the Linux kernel team, Linus didn’t sulk or take a break. Nope. He thought,

I can't image another version control system that is as distributed and fast as Git. BitKeeper was taken away from us, and I decided that I’m going to write my own.\

— Linus Torvalds, Google Tech Talk, 2007.

Classic Linus, right? Just casually creating a whole new tool because nothing else was good enough. And the name "Git"? Oh, yeah. It’s actually British slang for an unpleasant or stupid person. 🙄

These days, pretty much every company that cares about code quality and version control uses uses Git or some fancy SaaS version that’s basically Git with a prettier interface. It's everywhere, running the show behind the scenes. So here we all are, using this “stupid content tracker”.

I’ve picked up a lot along the way, and I’m ready to spill more of Git stuff. So, stay tuned...