In April 2005, Linus Torvalds, began development on Git, following some developer turmoil over the use of a proprietary source-control management software.

One of the greatest assets we have as data professionals is our unrelenting desire to understand how things work and leave them better than the way we found them. We often write scripts, code, and even applications to help us solve ALL the problems. And "solving problems" is our middle name. When we solve these problems though, what do we do with the code?