Yeah 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

Yeah 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.