[lugip] First kernel release using git - 2.6.12 on June 16, 2005

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

Someone also asked what was the first kernel release using git but I
didn't know. Here is the answer. It was 2.6.12 on 2005-06-17.

Also if you want to know where the 'git' name came from:

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-90fa13ebe170116f1586156e73b549cc2135b784

And to end, let me paste some impressive quote from Wikipedia (backed by links)

"The development of Git began on April 3, 2005.[33] The project was
announced on April 6,[34] and became self-hosting as of April 7.[35]
The first merge of multiple branches was done on April 18.[36]
Torvalds achieved his performance goals; on April 29, the nascent Git
was benchmarked recording patches to the Linux kernel tree at the rate
of 6.7 per second.[37] On June 16, the kernel 2.6.12 release was
managed by Git.[38]"

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

  Luis