It starts small. One curious user downloads Git to see what all the fuss is about. Before long he’s extolling its virtues to his buddy, and they start pushing/pulling work back and forth. Next comes ...

Before that, Torvalds had been content to keep Linux's code straight by hand. But, by 1999, as developer Larry McVoy observed, Torvalds was on the verge of burning out. The problem? You couldn't scale ...

Microsoft has rolled its Git Virtual File System and Scalar optimizations into a fork of Git designed to support enormous repos and large distributed teams. Building applications at scale is nothing ...

A dispute between a prominent open-source developer and the maker of the software used to manage Linux kernel development has forced Linux creator Linus Torvalds to embark on a new software project of ...