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The base system's source repository moved to Git in December 2020, following the documentation repo by weeks and preceding the ports tree by several months.
How kernel.org administrator Konstantin Ryabitsev's b4 tool, introduced in March 2020, made the Linux kernel's mailing-list-based patch workflow substantially less painful without abandoning email itself.
A complete walkthrough setting up a terminal-based git interface — staging, committing, browsing history, and resolving conflicts visually, without leaving the keyboard or the terminal.
When kernel developers lost free access to the proprietary BitKeeper in April 2005, Torvalds responded by writing an entirely new version control system himself — Git's first commit landed within days.