How Git Actually Stores Your Code: The Hidden Architecture Behind Every Commit
On April 7, 2005, Linus Torvalds made the first commit to a new version control system. He had started coding it just four days earlier, on April 3rd, after the proprietary tool he had been using for Linux kernel development became unavailable. The kernel community needed something fast, distributed, and capable of handling thousands of contributors. What Torvalds built in those frantic days wasn’t just another version control system—it was a content-addressable filesystem disguised as one. ...