You can look at the code in the first commit Linus made. It is a very minimal yet functional version of Git. https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bf

You can look at the code in the first commit Linus made. It is a very minimal yet functional version of Git. https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23ca2e25604af290 https://github.com/git/git/commit/e83c5163316f89bfbde7d9ab23... Edit: To get to this commit run $ git log --oneline --reverse master | head -n1 e83c516331 Initial revision of "git", the information manager from hell