alt Hacker NewsWas reading about version control history and found out Git went from first commit to self-hosting in like a week. Linus was just mad about the BitKeeper licensing thing and hammered it out. Not some grand architecture - just "screw this, I'll do it myself." And somehow that became... everything. Wild.
I was monitoring the linux kernel mailing list when this happened. Wild times. It seemed then that something special was happening.