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This line of ESR's > As Linux grows, there will come a time when your raw talent is not enough. is the key bit. ...and I think it was proven true several yea
by tjic 17y ago
This line of ESR's
> As Linux grows, there will come a time when your raw talent is not enough.
is the key bit.
...and I think it was proven true several years back, when Linus found it increasing hard to keep on top of dealing with the inflow of bug fixes, patches, features, etc.
Raw talent is never enough for the really big problems. Proper use of routines and procedures are a brain amplifying technology.
- memoryfault 17y agoYes, and so he moved on to an easier to manage project by starting to write git from scratch.
- rbanffy 17y agoGit, internally, is very simple.
- boundlessdreamz 17y agoIt was not because of the complexity of the code, but because of the workflow and poor version control systems. Bitkeeper helped him manage it first and then git was written