> 1. Linux source was hosted on BitKeeper before git. It basically was one of the first distributed source control systems (or the first? not sure if anything p

> 1. Linux source was hosted on BitKeeper before git. It basically was one of the first distributed source control systems (or the first? not sure if anything predated it). There were several systems which predated it. The most arcane one I know of is Sun's TeamWare[1] which was released in 1993 (BitKeeper was released in 2000). It also was used to develop Solaris for a fairly long time. Larry McVoy (the author of BitKeeper) worked on TeamWare back when he worked at Sun. > 2. Linux devs got into conflict with the BitKeeper owner over open-sourcing and reverse engineering, so Linus realized they needed a new system because no other source control system had the features they needed like BitKeeper had (mainly, I understand, the distributed repos). That is the crux of it. Linus does go over the BitKeeper history in the talk he gave at Google a decade ago on Git[2]. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_WorkShop_TeamWare https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_WorkShop_TeamWare [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8