Git
A command-line session showing repository creation, addition of a file, and remote synchronization
Original authorLinus Torvalds1
DevelopersJunio Hamano and others2
Release7 April 2005
Stable release2.54.034 / 20 April 2026
Written inPrimarily in C, with GUI and programming scripts written in Shell script, Perl, Tcl and Python56
Operating systemPOSIX (Linux, macOS, Solaris, AIX), Windows
Available inEnglish
TypeVersion control
LicenseGPL-2.0-only78
Websitegit-scm.com
Repository• git .kernel .org /pub /scm /git /git .git

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Footnotes

  1. “Initial revision of”git”, the information manager from hell”. GitHub. 8 April 2005. Archived from the original on 16 November 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.

  2. “Commit Graph”. GitHub. 8 June 2016. Archived from the original on 20 January 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2015.

  3. Junio C Hamano (20 April 2026). “[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.54.0”. Retrieved 21 April 2026.

  4. Taylor Blau (20 April 2026). “Highlights from Git 2.54”. Retrieved 21 April 2026.

  5. “Git website”. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.

  6. “Git Source Code Mirror”. GitHub. Archived from the original on 3 June 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.

  7. GPL-2.0-only since 2005-04-11. Some parts under compatible licenses such as LGPLv2.1.

  8. “Git’s GPL license at github.com”. GitHub. 18 January 2010. Archived from the original on 11 April 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2014.