Open Source Spotlight: Git
By BIOS Founding Team
Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005, the same person behind Linux, after a licensing dispute forced the Linux kernel project to stop using its previous version control tool. He built Git to be fast, distributed, and resilient, and it's now the default way nearly all software, open source or not, is versioned.
What makes Git distributed (as opposed to older centralized tools) is that every clone contains the full history of the project, not just a pointer to a central server. That's part of why platforms like GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket could exist at all.
If you're a BIOS member making your first pull request, you're using Git whether you think about it or not, branch, commit, push, PR is a Git workflow.
Git itself is open source too, and its mailing-list-based contribution process is a genuinely interesting (if old-school) way to see how a foundational tool is still actively maintained by volunteers and maintainers worldwide.
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