Git the popular version control system was originally initiated by Linus Torvalds for managing the code base of the open source Linux project. On Feb 2017 researchers from CWI and Google published the details of their successful collision attack on the Sha1, a hash on which git heavily relies. This made me curious about git's security features. While the Sha1 turned-out to be the least important security feature in git, what I discovered was Linus Torvalds hack on common perceptions of security and a new perspective on what it takes to create a safe space for individuals' to collaboratively innovate and create code.