GitHub Octoverse Report 2025 + Git release history

GitHub, Inc. Octoverse Report 2025. Git 1.0 release announcement, December 2005. Linus Torvalds first commit April 7, 2005.

Use: Establishes Git's 21-year operational lineage and the most authoritative annual report on Git/GitHub usage. Cited in C-0013 and E-0008.

Original whitepaper reference: [21]