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Linus' gifted-child problems aside, calling Linus out over a refusal to use "systematic version-control" might have had some small role in causing Linus to writ
by isomorphic 11y ago
Linus' gifted-child problems aside, calling Linus out over a refusal to use "systematic version-control" might have had some small role in causing Linus to write Git, if for no other reason than spite. That alone makes this an amazing email.
- Terr_ 11y agoI think it's unlikely: The 5-year gap between those two events seems a little long, and during that BitKeeper was used for a few years so it's not like alternatives hadn't worked.
- amboar 11y agoIt was more that Tridge "reversed"[1] the Bitkeeper protocol, leading to licensing issues and the eventual separation of Linux from Bitkeeper. The need for a high performance, distributed replacement motivated Linus to write a git. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/ https://lwn.net/Articles/132938/
- lmm 11y agoThe license issues were there all along. Tridge just made it harder to ignore them.