On the 20th anniversary of Git, Linus Torvalds reflects on the development of the version control system he created out of necessity following a licensing disagreement with BitKeeper. Initially written in just 10 days, Git's decentralized design was revolutionary and has since become the dominant tool in software development, influencing platforms like GitHub. Torvalds notes that Git's distributed nature and ease of use contributed to its widespread adoption, making it suitable for both large-scale projects and individual developers. Although he initially maintained Git for only a few months, he credits its ongoing success to the community and maintainers like Junio Hamano. Despite the overwhelming success of Git, Torvalds remains uninterested in source control as a field, seeing Git's creation as a solution to his own problems rather than a pursuit of innovation. He expresses little interest in exploring new version control systems, highlighting that Git met his needs early on and that he prefers other people solving his remaining technical challenges.