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The sentence about Torvalds might be a bit of a stretch. The approach (distributed version control) wasn't new when he created git.

Also, what is with that changing of selection color? :)

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Its true that Linus did not invent distributed version control (he did not invent OS either), but git did change the world of version control systems similar to his other creation Linux.

Thanks for observation, i did not notice the selection color was pink :)

HTML5 Boilerplate uses the same selection color, so its feasible that that was used as a starting point.

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