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    Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds

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    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2025–2026

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    41:50 · 548K views · Apr 9, 2025

    GitHub interviews Linus Torvalds on twenty years of Git, from its creation in about ten days as a Linux kernel tool to its role in modern software development. He discusses technical decisions, community contributions and the project's philosophy.

    HN commenters cite it for Linus's direct opinions on Git and development tooling, such as calling the SHA-256 migration pointless churn.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @ontouchstartFeb 2026· in “The Missing Semester of Your CS Education”

      I watched this YouTube video Two decades of Git: A conversation with creator Linus Torvalds this video I was surprised that he only spent four months on it as a maintainer. What a great piece of work by a great software developer.

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    2. @sam_lowry_Nov 2025· in “Git 3.0 will use main as the default branch”

      > changing from SHA-1 to SHA-256 for greater security Linus has a different view, he referred to the SHA-256 migration as "pointless churn": this video SHA-1 is not broken enough to be a serious issue for git. The migration to SHA-256 has been forced by on git by clueless morons, and it is, in this very special way, similar to the master-main rename.

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    3. @conartist6Jan 2026· in “I program without syntax highlighting”

      Aha, found it. No you're right it is his own hacked up emacs fork, but he does also say that it lacks color. Found it in the video here: this video

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