Git

Git is a distributed version control and source code management(SCM) system, that was written for speed. Created in April of 2005 by Linus Torvalds, it now fulfills 36% of the SCM market(2013). It was originally written as a new SCM system just for the Linux kernel development team, but became a major hit, and many people adopted it over other SCM's, like Subversion(SVN). Git is released under the GPLv2 open source license.

Development

 * Linus started development with Git on April 3rd of 2005
 * It was announced on April 6th of 2005
 * Git hosted its own source code the day after it was released(April 7th, 2005)
 * Git hosted Linux's version 2.6.12
 * On July 26th, 2005, Linus turned Git over to Junio Hamano, a major contributor to Git, and Junio remains the maintainer of Git