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> get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately > like the time ... I needed to write a little tool called "git". I need
by hyperpallium 8y ago
> get some assistance on how to understand people’s emotions and respond appropriately
> like the time ... I needed to write a little tool called "git". I need ... to fix some issues in my tooling and workflow.
Hopefully we'll get another world-wide revolution out of this.
- djsumdog 8y agoI dunno. I think git's success is less around Torvald's developing it and more about companies like Github finding ways to capitalize on it. They kinda made a Freshmeat/freecode that included the code repository, without being as shitty as Source Forge.
- hyperpallium 8y agothere was great excitement and adoption before github famous linus talk at google 2007 https://youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8# https://youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8# github founded 2008 https://wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub https://wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub git's distributed nature was revolutionary. Although not the first (BitKeeper for one preceded it), it has a mind-numbingly simple design, of distributed data by content addressing (data named by its hash, so it has the same name whereever it is).