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I'm sure github has done more for git uptake than anyone else involved on the lkml or Linus himself. He should be thanking them for that.

• uiri 9y ago
  He should only be thanking them for that if git uptake around a mutilated version of his tooling is something that Linus wants. I suspect very strongly that he doesn't want that. In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to them.
  • qb45 9y ago
    > In fact, if GitHub were a less popular service he wouldn't need to spend nearly as much time dealing with people who don't RTFM and submit GitHub PRs despite Linus' objections to them. Does he even bother reading them nowadays? If anything, I would say that if git were less popular, its developers wouldn't have to deal with constant complaints that their UI scares noobs.
  • eosrei 9y ago
    He doesn't read them. There is a bot for that now. Example: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/445#issuecomment-320309817 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/445#issuecomment-3203...
• icebraining 9y ago
  Why do you think he cares that anyone else besides Linux kernel developers use git?