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The author should rather be extending a loud "Thank you" to Linus Torvalds. While he didn't invent DVCS, he certainly mainstream'd it with git. Github would n
by benwilber0 9y ago
The author should rather be extending a loud "Thank you" to Linus Torvalds. While he didn't invent DVCS, he certainly mainstream'd it with git. Github would not have existed without Git.
Linus invented both Linux and Git. It's incredible what that man has accomplished in his life and how he's affected the software field and the world in general.
- bobx11 9y agoIn my opinion, GitHub succeeded in spite of git, rather than because of git. I see beginner spend a lot of time on issues merging and rebasing. They simply would not continue (outside the hard core technical crowd) if it weren't for GitHub making the nice pull request screen and rendering markdown. They did a way better job than bitbucket did back in the day and here they are in top. Just my experience.
- benwilber0 9y agoYeah I agree with that. I guess we could extend the "Thank you"s down beyond Git to K&R and those before them. Because without C Git would not exist. But Git's invention was recent enough, in the context of Github, that the real merits should be directed to Linus. But yes, Github slapped a nice Rails webapp + UI on top of Git and basically changed how software collaboration worked. Pretty much overnight. Sourceforge, Bitbucket, and Launchpad were all a nightmare. Github changed all of that.