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Trivia question of the day — Sep 24, 2026

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QUESTION OF THE DAYTHU 24 SEPT
DIFFICULTY 35 · MEDIUMSCIENCE

Which version-control tool did Linus Torvalds begin writing in April 2005 to manage development of the Linux kernel?

  1. CVS
  2. Darcs
  3. Git
  4. Bazaar
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Answer

C. Git

Git was born of necessity: the free licence for BitKeeper, the proprietary tool that kernel developers had relied on since 2002, had just been revoked.

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